Responds to Raymond Rodrigues's l985 "English Journal" article presenting reservations about a too-narrow and too-dogmatic definition and application of the writing process approach to the teaching of writing. Addresses concerns that the article would provide ammunition from the traditionalists and that new writing process converts would find…

Describes a project that provided students with the opportunity to observe and comment on their own writing throughout the year through observations of their childhood writing, a series of journal writings, and writing taken through revision. (EL)

Describes a creative writing and reading class assignment in which each student was required to make a 20-minute presentation as a catalyst for student writing (such as a poem, song, object, or picture). (EL)

Offers a four-step procedure that can be used to help upper elementary school students learn to write a well-structured expository paragraph. Suggests that the writing experience is a bridge to understanding more difficult text structure. (FL)

With 138 sites nationwide and over 70,000 teachers participating each year, the National Writing Project offers readily available opportunity for improved writing instruction. Essentially a staff-development program, the project is based on the belief that the key agent in educational change is the teacher. (Author/MLW)

Argues that a culture's rhetoric constitutes an interface where the prescriptions of the language meet the practices of the culture. Attempts to identify and suggest some of the differences between Chinese and Western rhetoric that confront an American writing teacher in China. (EL)

Describes learning activities that promote the teaching of reading and writing together within the context of basal materials. Presents an example of how these activities were used in a second-grade classroom. (FL)

Describes the emphasis on creativity in expository writing in a college composition class. Outlines four traits of creativity promoted and encouraged in student nonfiction writing and writing assignments for that purpose. Includes samples of students' creative nonfiction. (HTH)

Suggests the growing use of computers to process information in today's world increases the human need for an interactive competency in writing and reading. The integration of instruction in reading and writing, particularly through use of word processors, is discussed as a way to strengthen this interaction. (MBR)

Presents results of a survey of public relations professionals indicating that poor writing ability is the biggest weakness of college graduates entering public relations and recommending that students receive instruction in writing and journalistic skills, as well as business and public relations practice. (HTH)

Describes the writing evaluation of an 11th-grade English class in which precourse and postcourse samples are graded by a team of English teachers. (EL)

Argues that the crisis of identity in English studies today is the result of continued failure to come to terms with radical changes in the concept of literacy occurring between the founding of the Modern Language Association and the formation of the National Council of Teachers of English. (EL)

Reports the results of interviews with people in business who were asked what should be taught business writing students to prepare them as well as possible for writing they will do on the job. (EL)

Notes that while the importance of writing instruction and the development of better newswriters is a key concern of the journalism profession, journalism texts and journals show little awareness of advances in the composition field, such as process instruction, epistemology, invention, and revision. (HTH)

Describes a proposed curriculum, designed to address the needs and interests of women prisoners, with the goal of improving their writing skills before they enroll in college courses. The course is constructed around a schedule of three one-hour sessions per week and emphasizes composition and the mechanics of writing via sentence-combining…