Describes how adjunct courses can encourage students to see writing as a process of discovery and creation. (CRH)

Describes a course called Women in Literature designed to acquaint students with fine women writers, to explore one writer in depth, and to encourage students to write about their own lives. (EL)

Three different types of student newspapers are offered as examples to help teachers develop a unit on school publications. Creative ideas help children learn interviewing techniques and writing and editing skills while exploring many aspects of journalism. (DF)

A research study related undergraduates' apprehensions about writing with their final grade in a composition course, grade point average, and other factors. Found that most A and B students had low apprehension, while D and F students had high apprehension. Implications for teaching writing are discussed. (CJM)

Argues for the use of case studies in writing instruction and presents a sample case study designed for either technical writing or business communication courses. (AEA)

Describes a graduate course in communications that emphasizes marketing strategies. (AEA)

Provides suggestions for helping student writers deal with predication. (FL)

Reports on a project designed to examine the needs and opportunities for reading, writing, and communication software. Offers suggestions for ways to improve software quality. (FL)

Argues that having students use the outlining, prompting, and abstracting capabilities of word processing programs can help tighten their writing organization. (FL)

Argues that by exposing students to basic techniques of graphics, the technical writing teacher can encourage them to include simple illustrations and diagrams in their reports, and that more advanced students may enhance their works by hiring professional artists or photographers to do these tasks. (FL)

The director of a technical writing program explains how he remolded his style from an academician to a technical communicator. (FL)

Raises some questions about the way children write stories and the part teachers play in their writing. (HOD)

Discusses guidelines for the investigation and subsequent writing of a problem centered report. Examines technical writing theory and how it applies to example reports. (HTH)

Examined whether instruction on a single structure (the relative clause, the appositive, and the infinitive nominal) would alter frequency of use or global syntactic complexity and whether this instruction lasted beyond the immediate posttest. (HOD)

Reports on a survey of a university faculty's views of student writing. (HOD)