Describes the development and implementation of an online writing course for advanced English as a Second Language students. Indicates that, with the commitment, support, and patience of the institutional administration, faculty, and students, Internet courses can be effective modes of instruction. (SG)

Considers how various strategies can be employed to design a student-centered conference environment that helps developmental students find a place in the academic community. Presents suggestions that are geared toward regular daily class sessions that make the instructor an important part of the writing process. Presents 25 strategies…

Describes an intervention program to provide extra writing instruction to seventh-grade struggling readers. Discusses characteristics of these struggling writers and compares it to other research that involved low-achieving students. Notes how teachers developed the program using authentic writing activities together with structured lessons about…

Notes that professional reflection is a powerful aspect of practice and, in welcoming many "English Journal" colleagues back to another academic year, the author suspects that many are thinking a good deal about grading. Discusses the importance of feedback for student writing. Suggests the need to relocate teacher feedback to the public forums of…

This review examines the literature on how to teach kindergarten children with reading and writing difficulties how to write. Research on handwriting instruction, spelling instruction, and composition writing is discussed. Although the research on writing instruction in kindergarten is limited, findings suggest it can include instructional…

Explores strategies for literacy instruction that help high school seniors from different backgrounds expand their reading and writing skills. Examines how to differentiate instruction while keeping high expectations for all students. Describes a project which was based around the passions which sustain students. Details how this project included…

Notes that "women's web sites" are absent from discussions of rhetoric and electronic communication though these sites accumulate a significant number of the hours women log online. Argues that it is important to recognize the exchange and creation of knowledge by and for women through women's online resource venues. Offers productive ways of…

Notes that with so many multivoice novels accessible to teens, there is a great opportunity to expand students' reading repertoire. Proposes that young adult novels are an excellent transition to classic literature that may seem remote or difficult. Offers advice on teaching multivoice novels. Concludes that multivoice novels show young readers…

Describes a student's journal entry which discusses her response to a work of digital fiction. Reads the journal entry as a resistance narrative, an assemblage, a remediation, and an emergence. Reflects upon the changes in instruction and identity that occur in computer classrooms, online course supplements, and Internet classes. (PM)

Three English-as-a-Foreign-Language teachers share classroom successes in teaching the relationship among the poetic, affective, and communicative functions of language. One offers tips on how to use drama scripts, one illustrates how a song can foster creativity in a secondary class, and the third explains how the combination of a writing…

Annotates 146 books in the areas of writing, language, literature, and teacher education. (MG)

Examines the enthusiastic discourse that has accompanied the introduction of computers into writing classes. Explores how this language may influence both change and the status quo in electronic classrooms. Argues that writing instructors, by thinking critically and carefully about technology, can succeed in using it to improve the educational…

Briefly described is an instructional activity, the "Short Story Booklet," designed to aid exceptional students in grades 7-12 to put their thoughts on paper. The students write stories using processes of prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing and compile them into booklets. (DB)

Describes two models for using the Electronic Networks for Interaction (ENFI) systems in writing instruction. Identifies the aims as (1) advancing traditional interests of the English department; (2) encouraging collaborative writing; and (3) increasing student freedom. Provides examples of student writings resulting from the traditional teacher…

Proposes consideration of professional writing instruction as a course in rhetoric which necessarily involves ethics. Argues that use of the classical enthymeme (a syllogism which builds upon assumptions rather than empirical truths) helps students learn how writing's ethical implications can be managed in the interest of effective, socially…