Reports findings of a study conducted to determine whether the amount of training and experience readers have had in using a particular grading scale correlates with their judgments about the quality of an essay, and whether the amount of training and experience affects the consistencies of their judgments. (EL)

Lists texts designed for more restricted uses than the typical day-by-day composition text. Textbook topics include sentence combining practice, book report writing, a writing course for ESL students, and supplemental materials for writing instruction. (EL)

Practical ideas for helping students compose, revise, edit, and publish their own stories are presented by a teacher of the hearing impaired. Other copies include organization of classroom space for writing projects, directions for binding storybooks, and ways of sharing stories with classmates. (JW)

Relates how a student's composing process will be shaped and influenced by the microcomputer and word processing. (HOD)

Relating to her own experiences and to her reading of "Language and Mind" by Noam Chomsky, the author argues for the teaching of traditional grammar. (HOD)

Presents a set of descriptive models for teaching paragraph development in English as a second language (ESL) writing classes based on the "given/new contract," a theory of information distribution developed text linguists. Discusses applications of the models to ESL composition classes, particularly scientific and technical writing classes. (SED)

An experienced educator describes how a video studio was turned into an effective college writing classroom. Necessary equipment, the nine-step process students utilized to produce a short television documentary, and course outcome are discussed in detail. (MBR)

The computer can be used in the classroom to make writing tasks less formidable. The word processor allows the writer to make corrections with less effort than rewriting an entire paper. Students are better able to see an imbalance between what they write and what they intended when writing with a computer. (DF)

Suggests methods which engineering faculty can use to encourage students to write often and well. Directions on how to teach writing in an engineering classroom and an annotated bibliography are given. Students are motivated when they learn that one-third of their working time as engineers will be spent writing. (DH)

Suggests methods for improving the quality of essay exams when teaching literature. (DF)

Suggests that a teacher's awareness of students' body language provides a context in which to place students' written work. (DF)

Examines the cognitive processes associated with speech and writing. (HOD)

Readers and authors respond and reply to former articles on the teaching of grammar in the composition classroom and computer assisted instruction and the writing process. (HOD)

Contains comments on articles by Patrick Hartwell, Robert Scholes, and Gordon Broswell. (EL)

Indicates how the philosophic technique known as "thought experimentation" can be used profitably by composition teachers. Provides two examples. (EL)