Peer review can be a valuable tool in the writing development of high school sophomores. Specifically, this research study explores the use of peer review to improve writing skills and to build content knowledge in a social studies high school classroom through the use of peer interaction. The problem in social studies high school instruction is…

Two scales of mothers' mediation of their children's writing based on Aram and Levin (2001) were developed and tested in 67 mother-child Hong Kong Chinese dyads in three grade levels--second-year kindergarten, third-year kindergarten, and first grade. With children's ages, grades, and non-verbal IQs, as well as mothers' education levels…

Teaching students to become readers who can work with an author to "build" a text requires a better understanding of the nature of the author-reader relationship. This essay discusses the rights and responsibilities of that relationship by presenting writing and reading as a rhetorical situation--an interaction between author,…

Research was conducted to test the assumption that technical writers compose as other writers do. Information was gathered through questionnaires and interviews surveying 70 writers--technical writing students, students working part-time in industry, university professors, and engineers and researchers working full-time in industry. The results…

Applies Burke's dramatistic pentad to the stages of the writing process. (DD)

Argues that formulaic writing, as in the five-paragraph essay, blocks diversity of expression. Asserts that each composition should be unique to the writer and subject, and that the writing process must be allowed to move through "untidy" stages that characterize the creative process. (MM)

Recent research indicates that journalistic reporting and writing techniques effectively develop language arts competency. Such writing techniques should be taught long before the student enters high school. Benefits of real-life writing to students are discussed. (MT)

Discusses the book, "The Tidy House: Little Girls Writing," by Carolyn Steedman, which is an account of the writing of a story by three young girls and the story itself. (FL)

This module provides paraeducators with awareness of strategies that can be used to help students become better writers. The NWREL 6 + 1 Trait[R] model is offered as an example of an approach that can be used to develop and assess student writing skills and enable paraeducators to assist teachers in the instruction of writing. Paraeducators will…

An interview with a well-known writer reveals how he writes and how he feels about the way writing is being taught. (FL)

Discusses the need for would-be writers to undertake on-the-scene research to become thoroughly familiar with a writing topic. Relates some of the author's experiences gained through such "field" work. (HTH)

Describes research on the process of writing using a protocol analysis approach that suggests a writing model containing three major processes: planning, translating, and reviewing. (MKM)

A scientist explains the processes he uses to draft and redraft articles for scientific journals. (RL)

Questions the current expectation that writing theory will serve pedagogy in direct, immediate ways, because of the extraordinary variety and complexity of the writing process. (DD)

Discusses the life, works, and philosophy of a major "new journalist" writer. (FL)