Describes an exercise for a technical writing course on documenting a problem within a corporate environment, thus giving students experience in appropriate documentation to tackle some of the operational, political, and ethical problems common in the workplace. (SR)

Lists and annotates 16 books and articles that deal with multicultural writing and literacy issues. (PRA)

Illustrates, through a description and examples, the collaboration between a university class and an elementary class. Describes pen pals and collaborative book writing as two approaches that provide student writers with the opportunity to receive rehearsal of strategies such as invented spelling, writing as a process, and integrating the language…

Evaluates three computer software programs designed to help writing teachers to respond to and comment on student papers. Asserts that these programs do not actually assist teachers in writing comments, but help them to avoid writing comments. Argues that teachers expect too much of the computer as an aid to response. (PRA)

Examines the composing processes of basic writers, examining their tendencies toward writer's block, low-level goals, and writer-based prose. Suggests that basic writers be taught that the purpose of writing is to communicate with other people and that errors, revisions, and general messiness are part of the complicated process. (PAA)

Defines four principles (goodwill building, course of action, bottom line, and most important first) that pose rhetorical problems for students making the transition from academic to business writing. Presents a problem-solving case to demonstrate reader-based business writing and provides samples of students' writing that illustrate the…

Examines the effect of the misuse and over-use of logical connectives in English-as-a-Second-Language undergraduate writing, and suggests that students use a small subset of relatively comprehensible connectives, employ connectives for phrasal expansion, and view logical progression as an integral stage in writing. (Author/CB)

Describes the writing theories of Lev Vygotsky, and how they are borne out by modern research. Asserts the Vygotsky's ideas show why cooperative learning strategies such as peer response groups fit into the beginning stages of the composing process. Discusses Vygotsky's zone of proximal development. (PRA)

Contains specific teaching ideas of six writing teachers at community or four-year colleges. Includes suggestions on teaching grammar and punctuation, eliminating plagiarism, defining technical writing, and writing character analyses. (PRA)

Discusses the teacher's obligation to help students utilize language which sounds and feels like their own, while helping them to master a language which opens up a larger, wider, deeper world for them and their teachers. (PRA)

Shares how a teacher helped students learn about the concerns of people who come from different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds by having them write poetry from the point of view of literary characters in literature which they read. Points out how this helps students weave literature, history, social analysis, writing, and classroom…

Shares how to use the computer lab and peer interviews to help students get to know each other at the beginning of the school year. Provides an example of a peer portrait on-line worksheet for students to use. (MG)

Contains the English Council of California State University's statement of principles, responding to the 1989 CCCC statement developed in response to the Wyoming Resolution. Discusses (1) teaching, service, and research in rhetoric and composition; (2) the status of teaching assistants; (3) the status of lecturers and part-time faculty in…

Presents a transcript of an interview with the American feminist and cultural critic bell hooks. Covers aspects of her various writings. Relates her thought to the field of composition studies. (HB)

Explores the power of collaborative inquiry to allow students to engage in the important intellectual activity of dialog. Describes collaborative inquiry projects that allow students to transcend the limits of their personal knowledge while drawing on it at the same time. Provides analysis of several student groups. (HB)