Describes in diary form the process of reviewing new composition and grammar texts and noting their deficiencies and compares the offered material to what students actually need in composition instruction. (CRH)

Describes a documented term paper assignment that allows students to investigate topics in other courses in which they are enrolled. Discusses the advantages of enlisting help from instructors in other areas and offers tips for involving the cooperating instructors in a mutually satisfying way. (FL)

Examines the questions: (1) What criteria do raters use when making holistic judgments of brief, impromptu essays? and (2) Do raters judge such essays in the same way they think they do? (FL)

Explores some of the story concepts evident in children's story retellings and story writings. (FL)

Discusses problems and patterns in student journalistic writing. (HOD)

Reports on the work being done by Martha King with the writing of primary grade children. (FL)

Discounts Collier's study of the effect of computer-based text editors on the quality of students' revision, arguing that editing is not an innate skill and that the computer predictably would not improve upon a process with which the students are not familiar. Collier replies that he excluded several methodological alternatives to reduce the…

Analyzes the process by which successful writers summarize and suggests strategies for helping students summarize both expository and narrative reading material. (AEA)

Reports on the predrafting processes of several high and several low writing apprehensive students engaged in academic writing and analyzes the differences related to writing apprehension. (HOD)

Sentence writing behavior was established in eight mildy retarded special class elementary-level children through a procedure that provided word lists and teacher praise for self-selecting and self-locating words from the lists and imposed a cost (fewer sweets) for responses dependent on teacher modeling. (Author)

Four basic reasons why deaf children do not transfer learning drill-taught grammar to written language; they include the students' inability to associate the drilled concept with the identical concept in written contexts. Among four corrective approaches is the constant referral to use of a concept in books and other materials. (MC)

Author reflects on the value to his sixth-form students of a residential creative writing course. (Editor/RK)

Education is a complex issue and no sweeping generalizations about it can be made. It follows, therefore, that there can be no simple answer to the student test score decline question. (Editor) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Results (Utilization).

Studied a new device and training procedure for teaching the directional orientation and sentence tracking skills used in reading and writing western languages. Left-right and up-down directional confusion were shown to be rapidly corrected in normal children by the use of a simple electronic device providing clear feedback. (Author)

Urges that freshman composition teach students a general, non-academic, popular expository style, and that it be staffed by professional writers. (DD)