Discusses how one teacher used writing--her own writing as well as that of her graduate students--to learn, about student interests, their writing attitudes, and what a writer really is. Describes the use of dialogue journals, use of excerpted entries for class handouts, and the use of writing for more constructive student assessment. (HTH)

Invites colleagues in the "hard" sciences to embrace writing, reading, and thinking across the curriculum, and describes the use of "project" and "concept" composition assignments to that end in an organic chemistry course. (HTH)

Explains that creative writing is a form of communication and stresses the importance of communication in all aspects of education and suggests activities to facilitate that, such as having students produce a town guide or initiate and organize a campaign. (DF)

Describes a simulated business approach in which students write about the kinds of correspondence that members of company departments might write. Discusses determining a schedule, forming departments and choosing a company, making assignments, and using student managers. (EL)

Explains how students can enhance their writing skills and strategies by examining prose models concurrent with their own writing. (HOD)

Describes a computer program allowing students to study such circulatory variables as venus return, cardiac output, mean circulatory filling pressure, resistance to venous return, and equilibrium point. Documentation for this Applesoft program (or diskette) is available from author. (JM)

Linking the content of mythology to the art of story-telling, the three-week residency of a myth teller at a Long Island middle school provided students with opportunities to better understand and appreciate the myths, discuss and interpret them, and synthesize their experiences through writing activities. Results were overwhelmingly positive.…

Describes a creative leter writing activity that involved eighth and tenth graders assuming characters from the modern age and Middle Ages. (HOD)

Describes the development of a domain-referenced system intended to both describe and classify current writing assignments and to create composition assignments. (HOD)

Appraises the results of an exercise in which students in a composition class attempted to write detective stories. Concludes that many of their syntactic errors result from their intentions exceeding their level of writing skill. (RBW)

Discusses two types of video field trips: (1) motivational tapes which include interviews and tours and are designed to relate writing skills to job success, and (2) tutorial tapes, which include interviews, discussion films, subject films, and videotape projects, and are designed to enhance specific assignments in a technical writing course.…

Points out that students can be motivated to improve their writing if writing assignments can be designed to be similar in scope and purpose to those that the students will be doing later in their professions. (EL)

This investigation studied several aspects of the Exercise Behavior Model by investigating 65 college women's exercise behavior in relation to perceived control over exercise behavior, selected values, and attitudes toward physical activity. Results of this exploratory study are reported. (JMK)

Presents a model for a technical writing course with special emphasis on the needs of English as a second language students. Explanations of assignments focus on the rhetorical, syntactical, and grammatical features to be stressed. Also considers problems resulting from cultural differences, and the advantages and disadvantages of the sequence.…

Physical educators must teach preadolescents about safe and realistic strength-training methods commensurate with their needs and physical capabilities. The risk of injuries can be reduced by setting prudent goals, using equipment tailored to the age level, and educating students about their unique growth state. (PP)