Considers the ways writing center personnel have conceptualized teaching and tutoring. Critiques concepts of continuum and dichotomy linking teaching and tutoring. Suggests creating an image of dialectical process. Offers specific examples of the application of such language to a consideration of teaching and tutoring. (HB)

Describes a way of using environmental literature in the English classroom. Argues that ecological concerns can be usefully addressed by teaching nature writing. Draws parallels between ecology and contemporary literary theory. (HB)

Describes an exercise in which students demonstrate what they have learned by working in groups to find incorrect grammar in newspaper writing. (SR)

Describes the Coastal Georgia Writing Project, a part of the National Writing Project. Argues that more two-year college English teachers should join the National Writing Project network. (HB)

Discusses different ways authority is defined and understood both in the classroom and in the various programs designed to improve student writing. Argues that bringing tutors into the classroom forces teachers to reanalyze their thinking about authority through their interactions with students. (SR)

Describes various teaching tips used by a practicing English teacher to enhance writing instruction assessment in the classroom. Focuses on the ways a skills review might be more fun for students. (HB)

Discusses ways in which the process of composing may be integrated into the curriculum as part of the learning process. Group writing assignments, peer editing, and the multiple revisions allowed in process writing serve to demystify the task of writing in a foreign language and provide students with opportunities to learn from each other. (eight…

Gives an overview of the global issues concerning the English language. Provides an account of the authors' personal international experience and how it affected them. Considers recent efforts to teach English in a global context. (HB)

Offers six brief articles, each presenting a particular class activity for high school journalism students, focusing on feature writing, getting the whole picture, news writing, an observation test, sights and sounds, and a reporting exercise. (SR)

Considers the state of educational reform in the United States, with particular attention to the reformers. Discusses educational standards and uniformity. Asks how educational critiques disillusion the public concerning education. (HB)

Examples and ideas are given for stimulating creative writing in gifted children, using children's literature as a model, a stimulus, a motivational device, and a source of factual information. (DB)

Examines intermediate grade students' intraindividual differences across different levels or units of written language in sequencing the elements of written language. Finds that performance at the word level does not predict performance at the sentence or paragraph levels and that performance at the sentence level does not predict performance at…

Presents an overview of the topic of this special issue, "Literacy through University-School Collaboration." Gives brief summaries and comments about each of the articles in the issue. (HB)

Describes an award-winning program that integrates art throughout every stage of the writing process. Suggests that the program provides an alternative pathway into writing for children with diverse learning styles. Discusses research supporting the effectiveness of the program. (RS)

Describes the institutional and programmatic context in which a consultant-evaluation visit was requested at Washington State University and the evaluators' recommendations and subsequent changes that have taken place. Lists five reasons for requesting an evaluation. (MG)