Reports on the origins and development of Orange County Community College's Writing Consultancy Project, which employs an interdisciplinary model for integrating writing instruction into technical courses. Bases project success on teamwork between technical instructors and writing consultants to improve students' writing in required lab notebooks…

A turn-of-the-century printing press motivates elementary students to write. Children write, edit, and print their own stories on the Greenwood School Press. This self-supporting enterprise introduces children to various aspects of writing and producing literature. (DF)

Discusses the teaching of imaginative writing in the content area at the middle school level and indicates potential applications for such teaching at all levels. Contains extensive writing examples. (FL)

Argues that creative writing in schools should be considered as the writing students do that approximates forms of literature--literature being a broad discourse term for a number of genres, but especially the narrative and the lyric. (HOD)

Details the use of the manuscripts, journals, and published works of Emerson and Thoreau as a means of teaching revision to composition students. (FL)

Describes the experiences of a college instructor required by government regulations to return to the classroom for one year. Discusses initial problems in establishing control in an open plan primary school and eventual successes in teaching composition and multicultural education. Recommendations are made for inservice and preservice teacher…

Describes an experiment indicating that having students write expressively on a regular basis could significantly improve their reading comprehension and enhance their attitudes toward themselves and toward reading and learning. Discusses implications of these results for the classroom and curriculum. (HTH)

Presents a study of the process and the product in the early writing attempts of two children. Examines some of the strategies they use during the intermediate or invented spelling stage. (HTH)

Discusses the benefits to be derived from full collaboration in the writing process. Suggests that students learn from sharing their abilities and difficulties and gain emotional and technical support from working with their peers. This is particularly helpful for those students who lack confidence in their writing. (RBW)

Declares that teachers must act and speak in support of principles they teach in the classroom--invention, seriousness, and sharing ideas. (CRH)

Explains how William Golding's novel can be used to promote the use of exploratory language. Offers activities related to the novel that involve both writing and speaking. (FL)

Discusses a student-centered teaching method that allows business communication students to work in editing groups and use an overhead projector to teach the class about business letter writing. (FL)

Advocates fostering student writers' best efforts by creating ungraded, high word volume writing courses. (CRH)

Examines recent research that uses protocol analysis to determine the cognitive processes used by writers in planning their work. (FL)

Describes the phases of a data processing project used to help computer science students become better writers. (FL)