Describes several strategies to help journalism students avoid "writer's block," including front-end editing, brainstorming, clustering, notetaking, freewriting, and journal writing. (MM)

Discusses the developmental writing behaviors of children in a print rich environment. Suggests ways to encourage the writing process in beginning writers, and urges teachers to learn more about the concept of invented spelling. (MM)

Describes a writing exercise in which the fictional world of a literary piece is transformed into a real world containing people, events, and places. Suggests that students choose their own writing topics and act out the results. Notes that sources of worlds include epic poems, Shakespeare, and Greek mythology. (RS)

Discusses how a teacher was challenged to outgrow previously held beliefs about children and broaden her verbocentric curricular assumptions and experiences by a student for whom art stabilized and gave shape to his thoughts. Notes that the student helped bring real meaning to the idea that learning is "multimodal" in nature. (RS)

Suggests that the interplay between illustrative objectivity and artistic impression is nearly the same, in essence, in the imagery of poetry and in the imagery of painting. Discusses the nature and function of imagery in poetry and visual art. Describes the dilemma of attempting to convince students to "show" rather than…

There is a chasm in our knowledge of the relationship that exists between reading-writing and scientific literacy. This article was written with the intent of stimulating research on writing and reading to learn science. (ZWH)

Describes teaching plagiarism to students of English as a Second Language by treating it as a technical, ethical, and cultural issue, and by giving students ample, semester-long opportunity to practice their newfound skills. (SR)

Defines and discusses the concepts of empowerment and motivation, and clarifies the relationship between them. Shows how language arts teachers can take advantage of both in developing more effective classroom practices. Gives examples of motivationally sound practices from the domain of writing instruction that might also be construed as examples…

Examines how a writing class can help students to critically examine what or who they are identifying with or imitating. Suggests that reading can disrupt limiting, dualistic attachments and set into motion a process of remodeling, of addressing the restlessness experienced when one person tries to be like another. Considers why compositionists…

Examines the practical questions of how the enthymematic approach can be used in the classroom to help students become conscious of and more skilled in the process and shape of inquiry. Focuses on two processes that are at the heart of enthymematic inquiry: the process of discovery and shaping claims, and the process of discovering relationships…

Discusses seven recent high-quality professional publications that focus on the process approach to the teaching of writing and that discuss it from differing angles. (SR)

Reprints a 1983 article from this journal in which the author (a well-known journalist, writer, and teacher) shares advice he gives himself and his students. Updates the article with an Afterword commenting on the earlier writing. (SR)

Provides an extensive narrative describing how the full-time English faculty at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, developed a successful advanced writing requirement. (HB)

Uncovers a thread of scholarship running throughout this century that is concerned with the relationship between time, the teaching of writing, and institutional constraints. Analyzes what it suggests about time and writing, especially the use of impromptu writing for student assessment. Suggests ways to make some allowances for the role of time…

Describes how one English teacher used experience as a professional writer to change how she approached writing instruction in a seventh-grade English class. Outlines a method centered on extensive revision and the submission of writing portfolios. (HB)