Describes an English course that capitalizes on the popularity of running, integrating running with reading and writing activities. Notes the positive results of this interdisciplinary approach. Provides samples of student writings. (RL)

Contains suggestions for improving writing instruction and stimulating student interest in writing. Suggests contest writing, using the poem "Jabberwocky" for vocabulary development, and an activity for structuring creative thinking. (JT)

In response to burgeoning nontraditional student enrollments in freshman composition at the University of New Orleans, the entire English faculty has begun to teach all levels of composition courses. Benefits from this development have included student appreciation, an improvement in faculty morale, and a tightening of academic standards. (DF)

Describes a five-step unit approach for using media within a language arts program. (RL)

Describes a program for writing across the curriculum that involves English majors tutoring students in other disciplines. (HTH)

Tells how the author combines the study of metaphors and individual words in writing assignments about Shakespeare's plays and other works of literature. (RL)

Reviews the positive effects of participating in a faculty seminar on writing across the curriculum. Notes that writing must extend into subject area courses but that the curriculum must also be brought into writing courses. (JT)

Studies revision skills of grades 5-6 students asked to improve expository text written by other students by giving explicit evaluations, diagnoses, and suggestions. Supplements quantitative data with qualitative analysis of revision activities. Specifies in the model important cognitive steps in revision: compare, diagnose, and operate. Concludes…

Presents a case study of a first-grader who began to articulate a literary voice through her appropriation of narrative form. Focuses on her active response as she made narrative discourses her own. Draws on the work of L. Vygotsky and M. Bakhtin to suggest a way of talking about how young writers construct themselves. (SR)

Interrogates the reading/writing connection by evaluating how three essays by published writers affected the attitude and writing practices of university students in a course on the personal essay. Describes the course. Suggests what findings imply for current rationales about the reading/writing connection and for the use of anthology readings in…

Suggests that "branding" students "at risk" draws attention away from political, educational, and institutional failures. Describes how a student's at risk status can be reinforced through inadequate literacy instruction. Discusses how a high school teacher reduces the debilitating effects of at risk labeling and curriculum building by creating a…

Describes three years of research in intensive long-term writing intervention with adolescents with learning disabilities (LD) and low achievement. Successful intervention was attributed to the genre-specific strategies used, the focused and intensive nature of the writing instruction, and the use of interactive dialogs in conferences between…

The seasonal activities presented are: observing herbs to encourage use of the senses in writing; watching a jack-o'-lantern wither to learn skills in writing details; and building snowmen to learn to explain a string of events in writing. (SM)

Discusses how 4 teachers handle writing assignments, response, grading, portfolios, time allotted for completion of assignments, and classroom environment for English-as-a-second-language students. (RS)

This article offers strategies for implementing a process approach to teaching written composition, emphasizing prewriting, writing, and rewriting. Discussion of three functions of writing, including expressive writing, transactional writing, and poetic writing, is included. Writing process principles are linked to gifted education principles to…