Outlines a technique for improving student writing across the disciplines through postwriting evaluation sessions. (FL)

Describes a writing assignment in which students must complete a page of coherent prose using only one word containing the letter "n." The exercise serves as a prelude to the concepts of revision and of passive and active vocabularies. (HTH)

Explains how the use of parody can improve students' writing and add more zest, zing, and vigor to their writing style. (HOD)

Presents an exercise that guides basic writing students in their choices, requiring them to make evaluative annotations of each sentence in the draft of a paragraph. Includes (1) a set of questions that incorporate criteria for a sound paragraph and serve heuristically for the revision of the draft, and (2) a student example of the procedure. (HTH)

Describes the evolution of a final examination for a writing course emphasizing the process approach, student conferences, and revision through successive drafts. Discusses student responses to the new exam format and includes one student's exam essay. (HTH)

Presents three exercises that teach good proofreading and editing skills as well as tap students' creativity on the word processor. (HTH)