Guidelines for authors in writing for vocational education journals are presented and explained. The article stresses the importance of writing for the particular audience and of following the distinctive journal style, including when and how to use popular or technical style, with examples. (MF)

Recounts a semester in which freshman composition students learned the fundamentals of writing and the elements of good writing style by rewriting children's stories in their own words. (RL)

Presents a new model of the writing process, adding technic to the traditional elements of writer, subject, and audience. Offers 20 questions, based on the dynamics of the new model, to help students write and teachers respond. (RL)

Provides the rationale for an open composition laboratory, such as the one at Auburn University, within a remedial freshman English program. Suggests guidelines for the design and implementation of such a laboratory. (RL)

Compares how Pennsylvania newspaper editors and journalism educators ranked what they considered the most important skills a newsman should have. Both groups agreed that the three most important attributes were the ability to write stories clearly and interestingly, to use the tools of expression (spelling, grammar, punctuation) properly, and to…

In this program, engineering students who have proven to be excellent writers are trained to give individual help to other students. (BB)

Suggests the value of a prewriting sheet which asks remedial students to specify an occasion, audience, and purpose for each of their one-paragraph papers. (DD)

A study of writing evaluations by teachers from various departments at Bowling Green State University revealed that the teachers seemed capable of making valid holistic judgments about the quality of student prose. (DD)

Describes techniques developed by Ira Progoff for writing intensive personal journals and proposes their use in the classroom. (MAI)

Discusses grading problems encountered in southern dialect writers' themes and makes a distinction between regulative and constitutive rules. (MKM)

Describes a business writing course outline, and suggests using student writing to teach students to write clearly and effectively in a business writing course. (MKM)

Normalized legal drafting, a mode of expressing ideas in legal documents so that the syntax that relates the constituent propositions is simplified and standardized, and the query method, a question-asking activity that teaches normalized drafting and provides practice, are examined. Some examples are presented. (JMD)

The present condition of poor student writing can be improved only when all teachers are well trained in the use of English. Inservice programs with composition teachers from nationally recognized colleges serving as consultants can train teachers, who then could train other teachers. (Author/MLF)

To explain the test score decline in reading and writing, the author suggests that neither tests nor instruction is accomplishing what each purport to do and that both have ignored an underlying cultural shift. (Editor)