Direct instruction and practice, visual prompts, self-instruction procedures, evaluative reinforcement, and charting were used to remediate the handwriting deficiencies of a gifted, left-handed first grader. (CL)

Describes an experimental course, independently developed by the writing faculty, but with assignments adapted to the biology class. (HTH)

Presents steps for a writing class project in producing thematic magazines that parallel the writing and literature themes of the course. Includes a 25-day schedule. (HTH)

Presents sentence-combining exercises that can help basic writing students to produce correct surface-structure transformations in their writing. (HTH)

Reports responses of professional journalists to a questionnaire that asked how high school journalism classes had influenced their decisions to enter newspaper careers. (DF)

Presents a sampling of the issues contained in the rhetoric and composition papers presented at the Modern Language Association at the end of the nineteenth century. (EL)

Uses resources from the ERIC system to show teachers strategies for making teacher commentary count in writing evaluation and to discuss the characteristics of effective writing evaluations. (EL)

Textual grammar provides a means of examining the relationship between the sentence and the text as a whole, and it is in that context that the problems of learning a second language become clear and that it becomes important for the teacher to understand how the text functions so as to impart it to students. (MSE)

Discusses the dilemma that writing across the curriculum (a strategy for teaching writing which started in the 1970's) presents for science professors and for science majors. One area addressed is how the strategy can interfere with the teaching of college-level science subject matter. (JN)

Suggests that technical writing students need to be introduced to four important job-oriented concepts: (1) sleuthing (to pinpoint and correct questionable materials); (2) diplomacy (to handle sensitive authors); (3) scheduling (to estimate the time involved to complete a job accurately); and (4) budgeting (to determine job costs). (HTH)

First of two parts urges discarding the drill/skills approach to writing in favor of new methods developed through research. Second part discusses research findings related to the cost-effectiveness of reducing class size, using computer-aided instruction, increasing instructional time, and using peer tutors. (PGD)

Describes how teachers can use the Bayeux Tapestry as the basis for writing games in many disciplines. Offers guidelines for conducting introductory lectures and preliminary investigations. Presents a series of writing games for the following disciplines: Art, Communications, English/Language Arts/Foreign Languages, History/Social Sciences, Home…

Defends the CUNY-WAT against the charges made by Fishman (CS 731 865). Offers suggestions for those wishing to undertake research into the choice of topics for writing assessment tests. (FL)

Describes the positive attitude toward teaching of a writing instructor who intends to continue teaching in spite of receiving a Newberry award for her book. (HTH)

A professional scriptwriter describes a semester course he teaches in which students are required to write 12 scripts. (PD)