Reports on a business communication assignment to conduct an in-depth study of a corporation. The assignment concludes with a formal report of the students' findings centering on a study of the company's annual report. (TJ)

Proposes a modern version of "commonplace books" (student-developed notebooks designed to help students enlarge upon common truths in their discourse) as a tool for finding topics for writing. Suggests several types of entries that can help students improve their writing. (FL)

Argues that composition cannot be taught apart from reading, that reading means only the reading of great writing, and that the teaching of reading and writing is best handled by people who have studied literature and created some themselves. Offers suggestions for the improvement of the undergraduate English curriculum. (FL)

This writing unit with a Halloween theme includes exercises and worksheets to develop prewriting, writing, and rewriting skills. (SJL)

Proposes a technique for teaching report writing that considers three problem areas: the mechanics of language, the logical use of language, and the analysis of the business situation. (FL)

Several samples of writing are used to illustrate the lamentable quality of writing in the business world today. The sentence structures of these samples are dissected and recombined to form functionally more suitable and literate sentences. (JN)

A journal account of working in the New York poets-in-the-schools program, with some philosophical comments about the teaching of poetry and poetry writing. (RL)

Provides content area teachers with teaching strategies designed to integrate writing instruction into their classes, not only to improve student writing skills but also to enhance subject matter learning. (RL)

Discusses 11 specific activities that teachers can emphasize as part of the revision process, including altering form, organizing material, creating transition, deleting material, expanding information, emphasizing ideas, subordinating ideas, creating immediacy, improving syntactic structure, improving language use, and cleaning up. (RL)

A high school English teacher with repressed urges to write reports on his self-discovery as a result of writing in class with his students. (RL)

Shows how Tim Gallwey's psychological approach to the game of tennis can be readily applied to the art of writing. (RL)

Provides both anecdotal evidence and research data from a freshman composition program to work out a relationship between theory, research, and pedagogy. (RL)

Offers 10 classroom-tested assignments that result in successful writing experiences and assist students in developing creative and critical thinking skills. (RL)

Guides to assist students in evaluating and revising or rewriting their written works are presented and discussed. (HTH)

Describes a correction system that supplements and visually reinforces teacher responses to student papers by utilizing examples from those papers and emphasizing the positive aspects of the assignments. (HOD)