Examines two contrasting perspectives of invention: rhetoric as "art," and rhetoric as "knack," derived from talent and experience. Argues that inventive strategies should be viewed within an axiological perspective, and notes that instructors can teach students to combine different types of inventive strategies, avoiding a…

Argues that career preparation courses often serve only the vocational, not the intellectual and emotional, student needs. Argues that business and technical writing instructors can develop students' thinking skills by teaching them to investigate the history and culture of their chosen careers. (MM)

Shows how teachers can increase students' general appreciation of literature and improve students' writing skills by studying literature with legal issues and images of the law. Cites several examples of such literature, including Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," William Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure," and Jonathan…

Presents a writing exercise which involves students in their own and their peers' writing. Claims validity in that it personifies one of the most persistent blocks to expression--the inner critic which causes the writer to reject too soon and discriminate too severely. (RAE)

Describes an exercise that affords students the opportunity to articulate their ideas before a group of peers who challenge one another to clarify generalizations. (RAE)

Argues against using fiction in an introductory technical communication class. Discusses how the two genres are written and read for different purposes, require different methods of writing, and establish different kinds of relationships between the writer and the reader. (MG)

Presents a series of exercises aimed at helping students generate lines and ideas for their poetry. (MM)

Discusses the Wyoming Conference Resolution, which calls on the Conference on College Composition and Communication Executive Committee to formulate professional standards for postsecondary writing teachers; and set up grievance procedures against, and to establish means to censure, institutions which fail to comply with these standards. Appends…

Describes and evaluates three software programs for elementary level language arts: (1) "The Princess and the Pea," which connects the fairy tale with the modern world; (2) "PreWrite, Level 1," which helps students identify and develop writing topics; and (3) "Dinosaur Days," a creative graphics and publishing program with speech capabilities. (MM)

Describes an in-house writing workshop for mid-level managers, including course design, writing samples (original drafts and revisions), analyses of samples and revisions, and an analysis of a post-workshop survey. Argues that this approach should be used in college composition courses. (MM)

Argues that technical writing instructors teaching audience awareness should introduce students to a variety of pedagogical strategies. Describes four common strategies for teaching audience awareness, ranging from instructions to "consider your audience" to real rhetorical situations. (MM)

Presents guidelines designed to encourage children to focus on the message rather than the word as they write. Offers strategies and ideas designed to help children explore writing in ways they see as relevant. (NH)

Recounts, through the author's journal entries, four days of a junior high school writing teacher's experience. (MM)

Relates how student writers learn from one another when they share their writing with classmates in the "Author's Chair." (MM)

Recounts the history of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) and explores the purpose for CCCC's existence. (RAE)