From the results of two experiments, it would appear that weekly research papers can be assigned in large classes without placing heavy added burdens on the journalism instructor. (HOD)

Provides a writing assignment that is based on an actual court case. (FL)

Suggests that using a formula approach to constructing topic sentences can serve to motivate student writing and to inform students about the methods used to produce mass circulation fiction and tabloid writing. (AEA)

Discusses motivation, ritual, perception, language and perception, heuristics, investigation, and character as a catalogue of inventionist themes and explains their potential applications to the teaching of writing. (JL)

Examines two technical writing assignments involving analysis of particular audience adaptive techniques used in five published technical articles from diverse sources on the same limited subject. The first is a discussion exercise involving the entire class, and the second is an individual written exercise. (HTH)

Provides a rationale for including technical writing assignments in a freshman composition course. Describes several possible writing assignments, including descriptions of mechanisms, abstracts, and research reports. Also discusses possible texts and other readings for the class and how such assignments affect student attitudes and performance.…

Examines the modes of self-evaluation of writing quality as reported by professional writers, college students, writing instructors, and publishers. Suggests that writer resistance to self-evaluation may be healthy and that such evaluation should not come prematurely. However, without such evaluation, writers gain little from having written. (HTH)

Describes a teaching method which can be used in college level sociology classes to improve student writing. The teacher provides students with concrete examples of well-written work by other students in the class to compare with their own. The example clearly illustrates what the teacher expects from the students. (AM)

Describes a method used to help introductory college sociology students explore the range of sociological literature and become acquainted with the works of current scholars. Students read a number of journal articles and wrote critiques of six of them in the form of letters to their parents. (Author/AM)

Outlines the stages of the composing process, differentiating between those of skilled and unskilled writers. Provides a list of suggestions for elementary school writing instruction. (HTH)

Suggests activities for teaching students to put story events in the proper sequence when they read and write. (FL)

Examines the statistical and personal characteristics of the nontraditional students attending college in the 1980s. Discusses their social and educational needs and how reading and writing instructors can best meet those needs. (HTH)

Recommends using young adult literature to teach basic composition skills. (JL)

Asserts that just as the methodology of science is hypothetico-inductive research, rhetoric is the methodology of the humanitites. (JL)

Describes the formation of the Central California Writing Project and asserts that teachers need to be encouraged and challenged in order to sustain a commitment to teaching writing. (AEA)