Claims "Responsive Teaching" is a useful conferencing procedure which expects writers to evaluate and refine their own writing, and tries not to side-track the self-evaluation once it begins. (MS)

Notes that helping students create coherent texts is one of the most difficult jobs that composition teachers have. Describes a classroom technique that helps writers shift perspectives by getting them outside their texts. Notes that the technique requires students to examine what they do as readers to create coherent meaning. (RS)

Explains the purpose and function of the student-teacher memo, which puts both student and teacher into the composing process which produced the draft. Enables students to examine their own work closely, think about their composing processes, and address themselves to a reader. (MS)