Author describes various workshops and conferences held during the recent College Composition and communication Conference in Cincinnati and protests the non-professional attitudes toward the craft of writing" exhibited at the conference. (Author/DR)

Author describes the usefulness of the six minute color film A Short Vision", in stimulating the writing and the imagination of his English composition students. (DR)

Writing "lie" papers helped students develop both critical and writing abilities. (JH)

Emphasis on writer's role, audience, and thesis can help students improve their writing.

Describes how the four traditional kinds of writing (description, narration, exposition, and argumentation) are used in advertising and suggests ways that advertising and the four modes may be used to teach composition. (DD)

Argues that the romantic and classical theories about writing are not necessarily contradictory and proposes a larger view of the writing process that would accommodate both theories. Notes that problems in choosing composition instruction approaches stem from teachers' failure to distinguish between two of three categories of nonfiction writing.…

A college teacher describes writing problems of above average college students who have learned formulas", and his own problems in overcoming a formula response" to student papers. (SP)

Students asked to write directions for assembling a tinkertoy structure learned valuable writing skills as well as critical ability. (JH)

Examines two very different views of essay assignments and essay writing, both evident in the teaching of nineteenth-century Scottish rhetoricians. Comments on what these rhetoricians wrote to their students about the students' essays. Reveals no unanimity on composition activities and on what the rhetoric or composition class should include. (RL)

Presents various teacher-tested instructional techniques: (l) using counselors to aid teachers in basic writing courses, (2) training writing teachers using the process method, (3) teaching proofreading skills (4) using imitation in literature classes (5) using lists and imaginary dialogue to supplement conventional journal writing assignments,…

Describes the emphasis on creativity in expository writing in a college composition class. Outlines four traits of creativity promoted and encouraged in student nonfiction writing and writing assignments for that purpose. Includes samples of students' creative nonfiction. (HTH)

Explores ways in which an expository writing class can encompass training in both professional writing and in the humanities. Presents a writing assignment that combines research in the humanities with writing for decision makers. (HTH)

Students need to be equipped with a rhetoric which emphasizes relationships rather than analytic separations.

Some of Professor Kenneth Pike's tagmemic theory is explained, and an attempt to apply it in freshman English classes at the University of Michigan is described. Two writing subjects (a concrete object and an abstraction) are examined from the aspects of contrast; range of variation; and distribution with respect to class, context, and matrix. The…