Describes a heuristic for writing about literature, especially drama and fiction. Questions from the heuristic cover character, plot, setting, and literary devices. (HTH)

Claims that self-evaluation instruments strengthen students' ability to evaluate their own writing and improve writing instruction. Argues that self-evaluation exercises should (1) help students evaluate their writing, (2) demystify teachers' grades, (3) encourage students' awareness as writers, (4) require written responses from student, and (5)…

Presents a rationale for organizing a writing course around a feminist perspective and provides course outlines with appropriate readings and writing activities. (HTH)

Suggests a method of tapping students' visual literacy to reach four interconnected pedagogical aims by using a brief film segment in conjunction with a series of writings tasks. Offers two additional incentives regarding teacher's knowledge of film and the necessary element of play to keep students engaged. (JK)

Presents sequential approach to writing instruction that draws on power of rhetoric to help students connect with real world. Exercises focus on country's literacy problem and allow students to work with all kinds of discourse in logical sequence while learning to summarize, to analyze their own and their classmates' styles, and to work with…

Describes sample essay topics from an introductory course in philosophy that can be used to engage students in values analysis, values consciousness, and values criticism. (AEA)

Describes the writing of the formal technical report as a project for students in technical writing courses. Includes grading criteria for such a report. (HTH)

Examines the discrepancy between writing ability in composition classes and poor writing in other classes and suggests exercises that will better prepare composition students for the writing that will be required of them in other courses and in their careers. (HTH)

Some exercises to allow composition students to express their attitudes about writing courses and to allow instructors to keep more in touch with student apprehensions are suggested. (HTH)

Indicates how the philosophic technique known as "thought experimentation" can be used profitably by composition teachers. Provides two examples. (EL)

Suggests that to learn the effective facets of style in technical writing, students should read Walter Miller's "What Can the Technical Writer of the Past Teach the Technical Writer of Today?" in which the styles of 12 outstanding technical writers are analyzed, and examples of the various stylistic techniques of each writer are cited.…

Describes a technical writing class assignment in which students read reviews published in journals of their professions, emulate the style of those published reviews, and submit a review of their own to a journal. Suggests sources of new books to review and provides an annotated bibliography. (MKM)

Explains reasons for eliminating the requirement of "personal" writing from the curriculum in adult classes. (EL)

Reading, vocabulary enlargement, and the cause and effect essay are stressed as activities students can pursue on their own to improve their writing. (HTH)

Presents an assignment that requires students to seek out, classify, analyze, and evaluate data in order to emphasize the "search" aspect of research writing. (EL)