Provides a historical sketch of grammar study since the Romans to identify assumptions about grammar inherited or developed by nineteenth-century educators, who passed them on in ways modern educators might not recognize. Argues that the effect of this philosophical line is that the teaching of traditional grammar still has public and…

Reviews current research in Australia in the areas of writing, reading, spelling, and using the microcomputer in the English classroom. (EL)

Discusses the results of a study in which 130 college composition textbooks were examined in order to determine the role that expressive discourse plays in the teaching of writing at the college level. (DF)

Describes a simulated business approach in which students write about the kinds of correspondence that members of company departments might write. Discusses determining a schedule, forming departments and choosing a company, making assignments, and using student managers. (EL)

Explains how students can enhance their writing skills and strategies by examining prose models concurrent with their own writing. (HOD)

Describes a study that explored the collaborative writing processes of a group of business executives over the course of a year as they prepared a vital company document. Shows how context affected the writers' conceptions of their rhetorical situations and their writing behavior and how the rhetorical activities influenced the structure of the…

Discusses one teacher's gradual acceptance of poetry as a useful means for teaching many areas of the language arts. Includes a case study of one student's growth as a poet. (HTH)

Discusses the change in educational philosophy of a reading specialist with a skill-based background who learned the importance of teaching language, reading, and writing as processes rather than as subskills. Describes the techniques she used to help her students become thinking readers and writers. (FL)

Suggests that certain teaching methods are successful in teaching both English to the deaf and English as a second language (ESL) to remote-language-base students. Presents characteristics of American Sign Language and guidelines for managing deaf students in an ESL classroom. (SED)

Reports on the results of a 1983-84 survey of college departments of English to determine curricular practices in college English departments. (HOD)

Presents a strategy for teaching paragraph cohesion based on the "given-new contract" theory of information transfer that explains why and how to construct unified and cohesive paragraphs. (PD)

Observes that changes in the pattern of social interactions in classrooms as a result of computers may be even more significant than any simple technological effect. Illustrates the point with an example of sixth-grade writing on the QUILL software system, and the student's increased peer interaction and audience awareness. (HTH)

Describes the methodology and results of a study of changes in composition pedagogy in elementary schools. Results indicated increasing time allocated to oral language activities unrelated to writing and decreasing amounts of time allocated to letter and prose writing, word development, and oral exercises used as prewriting strategies. (HTH)

Presents observations on the effects of a word processing program developed for first-grade students. Focuses on the composing and transcribing abilities of six students, representing the range of abilities in the class. (HTH)

Describes the development of a domain-referenced system intended to both describe and classify current writing assignments and to create composition assignments. (HOD)