This concluding article in a series concerning the use of the comma in Spanish gives specific examples of its use from Spanish literature. Concluding remarks outline the major purposes of the comma. (NCR)

Twenty-five community colleges and universities in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico responded to a questionnaire evaluating general overall writing quality of beginning journalism students. Responses support the conclusions that journalism departments may need to lower standards, require English proficiency examinations, and institute…

The concept of sentence weights (the assigning of numerical scores based on hierarchical modification) seems to be a more sophisticated measure for looking at syntactic complexity than the T-Unit. (DD)

Describes four stages in a reading and writing transaction involving a reader's response to literature. The four stages described are involvement, perception, interpretation, and evaluation; student writing is required at each of these stages. (MKM)

Outlines the use of the Peer Evaluation and Review System (PERS) in journalism classes, noting its positive effects on students' news writing abilities. (RL)

Describes a method for teaching writing by utilizing the community as a source of information and by having students prepare written material for real audiences. (MAI)

Describes a successful meaning-centered writing program and the evaluation program used to judge its effectiveness. (IRT)

Suggests a series of exercises designed to help students see the value of concrete writing, to help give new life to metaphors, and to encourage concrete evaluations of abstractions. (TJ)

Describes how twelve wordless picture books can be used to encourage the development of children's writing skills. (DD)

Suggests ways a cassette tape recorder may be used to improve students' writing skills. (DD)

Concludes that remedial writers' writing processes are shorter and of poorer quality than those of traditional writers, and that what separates the groups is the ability to reflect on what is being written. (DD)

Describes the writing program which might emerge if several recognized American writers were asked to identify childhood experiences which influenced their development. (DD)

Presents early data on revision which emerged from a two-year study of the writing processes of 16 primary school children. (DD)

Reports on a study that examined the effect of intended audience and mode of discourse on the syntactic complexity of compositions written by sixth- and tenth-graders, and that attempted to determine whether there were increases in syntactic complexity from grade 6 to grade 10 for each audience and in each mode. (DD)

Describes a freshman writing course in which writing is taught by practice in writing. (MKM)