Relates the processes involved in Story Workshop from both the student's and the director's point of view. (TO)

Describes a method of teaching composition that focuses on rhetorical strategies in fiction, poetry, drama, and the essay, and by considering how these strategies are used effectively to achieve particular effects. (TO)

Presents a rationale for teaching writing in today's multi-media, electronic age and suggests teaching techniques for improving writing skills. (RB)

Tests a feedback system designed to improve the originality of the writing of elementary school children. (RB)

Describes the Learning Skills Program at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta, which offers students assistance in developing reading, writing, study, and listening skills. (TO)

Describes two courses designed to teach basic language arts skills, one involving special admission students at a university and the other involving soldiers. (TO)

Believing that the human condition is intrinsically bound with the aesthetic experience of man, and that composition in its many art forms is very much a part of a child's life, the author urges teachers to search for and find ways of providing children with opportunities that call on their idiosyncratic and aesthetic use of the written word.…

Authors describe a remedial writing course and conclude that individualized instruction is effective, efficient and economical. (Author/HB)

Article is a study on the return of adults to illiteracy after dropping out of adult education programs. It seeks to determine the causes and extent of this problem. (GB)

In an investigation of the effects of praise, negative comment and no comment on expository compositions of eleventh grade students, author hypothesized that praise might increase motivation more than criticism or no comment. He suggests an experiment to test this phypothesis. (NL)

Article considers affective writing skills, those writing techniques through which the writer communicates images and non-logical or emotional messages to the reader, and the use of silent film making as an exercise for developing those skills. (Author/RK)

Offers suggestions for news reporting, specifically on the interviewing and writing processes. (RB)