Discusses five ideas for writing projects designed for high school students, including the church story, the house story, the newspaper story, and teaching the library "our" way. (PA)

Revives the beneficial or functional sense of redundancy and shows that functional redundancy in writing need not be a contradiction in terms. Defines not only redundancy but also its opposite, ellipsis, and emphasizes the usefulness of each, using examples both in reading and writing. (TB)

Advocates the teaching of spelling in secondary schools through record keeping of student spelling errors and minilessons based on these errors. (TB)

Argues that teachers of professional writing should integrate legal literacy into undergraduate writing courses to provide students with the kinds of literacies that instructors and researchers want to promote. States that the virtual omission of legal writing from undergraduate professional writing courses fails to take into account the needs of…

Makes a case for students' using a focused, carefully phrased question as the basis for prewriting and writing, as opposed to a thesis sentence which can more easily lead them astray. (TB)

Argues that men and women write differently in college writing classes. Suggests that while the maternal model may be the most successful for teaching, male teachers can incorporate maternal approaches, and conversely, female teachers can incorporate masculine approaches. Evaluates the academic essay and the place of the female voice in academic…

Applies to composition teaching Adrienne Rich's concept of "seriousness," which expresses a collective vision rejecting achievement and self-development attained through traditional academic values. Argues that seriousness questions traditional sources of knowledge and authority and casts doubt on individualistic suppositions about…

Explains how an exercise for high school or college students can be disguised as a lecture. States that the first step is to have the students write a conversation, and that after this is done, a whole range of writing devices can be demonstrated, including use of characterization, tone, environment, and plot movement. (PA)

Offers short descriptions from 5 English teachers, each describing a book on the teaching of writing that they recommend to other English teachers. (SR)

Considers the teaching of grammar and its importance in the writing classroom. Examines what grammar is; why writing instruction has moved away from grammar; differing opinions regarding grammar and writing instruction; and grammar's place in the writing classroom of the new century. Argues that grammar must be applied to students' own writing.…

Argues that educators need to acknowledge how the material interests of part-time and adjunct teachers, graduate assistants, tenure-stream faculty, and administrators can come into conflict in composition in order to negotiate fairly among them. Discusses how the culture of academic professionalism militates against such a consciousness, and…

Describes an assignment where the student must examine him/herself as a writer. Discusses the implementation of the National Writing Project noting its purpose to improve the teaching of writing and improve learning in the nation's schools. (SC)

Calls for more complicated understandings of the relationship between women and technology. Draws on feminist technology theorists' constructions of technology as always ideological but never predetermined in its meanings for users as a way of beginning this project. Believes compositionists can disentangle themselves from the technologies that…

Describes how the author teaches children to write poetry the way the cubists made art, by connecting cubist portraits with series poems in a drawing-and-writing lesson that connects art and poetry. (SR)

Examines positions held by those challenging the status quo in composition and dispels apparent misconceptions about their goals and motivations. Outlines the discontinuities between earlier "abolitionist" calls for reconceiving the discipline and recent "new abolitionist" arguments to illustrate that in these newer calls lies the potential for…