Suggests some changes in teaching perspectives that might provide more satisfactory rhetorical assignments and situations for students. (CRH)

Explores the shortcomings of research for resolving the question of the effectiveness of grammar instruction. Suggests that writers need to develop skills at two levels: broadly rhetorical, involving communication in meaningful contexts; and broadly metalinguistic (rather than linguistic), involving active manipulation of language with conscious…

This study shows how a university writing instructor successfully prepares and conducts discussions and handles student responses and reviews students' attitudes toward this method. The description indicates it is possible to derive a realistic model of discussion and implies such operational models can be derived for most other teaching methods.…

Shows that fifth-grade students and their teachers agreed in general about the range of usual audiences for the students' story writing, that both were aware of who was and was not a usual audience for the writing, and that students seemed to have listened to what their teachers were saying about what was necessary for good writing. (FL)

Proposes the concept of criteria formulation as an integral part of the report writing process. Suggests using the skills of analysis, synthesis, and valuing to produce readable, comprehensive, and accurate recommendation reports. (EL)

Describes a course that gives students the kinds of writing and oral communication experiences they will need on the job. The course gives students information about effective speaking and teaches them how to write business letters, prepare simple visuals for written and oral reports, and write formal proposals. (EL)

Postulates that successful writing of all kinds depends on freeing the writer's imagination. Suggests techniques teachers can use to help students find their individual voice in writing, such as providing appropriate classroom proxemics, asking students to complete an evocative phrase, and having students critique each other's papers. (CJM)

Discusses the value of invented spelling as a means of encouraging young children to begin writing. Cites many examples of invented spelling. (FL)

Criticizes topical readers on the English language now being used in freshman composition classes both for implying that language constrains more than aids thinking and for providing poor writing samples for the student to analyze and emulate. Discusses the influence of general semantics on these readers and the reliance on the parodic perspective…

Traces the lack of rhetorical and stylistic criticism of twentieth-century English nonfiction both to a heightening of the traditionally low status accorded to nonfiction created by massive technical and scientific change and to its very recentness and claims that the lack of criticism calls into question generalizations about modern prose on…

Suggests that students can improve the quality of their persuasive essays when the issue is first argued in the classroom. Discusses invention techniques and methods for students to conduct their own research surveys for support of their theses. (HTH)

Describes a freshman composition assignment for writing a resume and job application letter to teach purpose, audience consideration, and clear concise writing techniques. (HTH)

Notes that flowcharting can be used to help college developmental writing students to think through the logical steps involved in writing. (FL)

Describes a successful college composition program that reduces writing anxiety and increases individual attention to students by pairing an advanced student writer with a faculty member as team teachers. (MM)

Suggests having students in fiction writing classes record overheard dialogue to develop a sense of realistic speech. (MM)