A Swedish linguist talks about his work and the role of reading and writing in helping immigrants achieve full bilingualism. (FL)

Recounts how personal experience led to the realization that writing should be the physical and metaphysical center of what goes on in the English classroom. (JL)

Reveals the drawbacks to expert pronouncements on the teaching of writing. (JL)

Suggests several short, manageable activities for teaching writing, such as writing cereal box copy, characterizations, test items, and obituaries. (JL)

Argues that the use of editing in the classroom involves the students in restructuring, revision, and rethinking as well as correction, extension, and deletion. (HOD)

Discusses instructing writing tutors, and tutorial classroom technqiues. Contains a list of different kinds of tutorial sessions to serve as a model for tutors. (HTH)

Ponders plagiarism. Proposes a "personnoting page," a place where students acknowledge everyone who helped them as a way of avoiding plagiarism. (JL)

Examines James Kinneavy's "A Theory of Discourse," contending that Kinneavy isolates the communication triangle of self-expression as Being-for-Itself, Being-for-Others, and Being-in-the World, into three separate kinds of texts, ignoring the key element underlying the philosophical positions that generated this triangle--time. (HTH)

Outlines ways that writing encourages learning and discusses when it is most likely to do so. Discusses how teachers can link writing to learning in content area classes. (HTH)

Describes the "Chinese Menu System" of student instructional units based on the ideas of James R. Moffet being used by teachers in the Columbus, Georgia, area in which students select learning activities from categories constructed around a single topic. (JL)

Discusses activities to teach a Rogerian approach to argument to help novice writers suspend evaluation of the opponent's position and to build their own position on values and knowledge they can share with the opponent. Includes discussion of a passage exemplifying Rogerian strategy. (HTH)

Discusses the steps involved in using short-paragraph dictation exercises: (1) preparing a passage which is of high interest and focuses on grammatical problems exhibited by students; (2) determining the best way of presenting the passage; and (3) evaluating student performance. Identifies the technique's benefits for improving writing skills.…

Explains how student-constructed "aliens" were used to generate writing and to encourage the development of writing skills. (JL)

Compares a teacher's proposed improvements in the English curriculum written in 1912 with current ideas. (JL)

Outlines what an adequate theory of the writing process would include, with special attention to the fact that the writing process is both linear and recursive. (JL)