Presents an assignment that helps technical writing students develop skills in preparing literature reviews. (RL)

Notes how the guest lecture portion of a team-taught writing course for engineers produced the need to teach the students listening skills. Describes class activities that ensure student development of writing, listening, and speaking skills in conjunction with the lecture series. (RL)

Contends that the subtleties of good writing are best learned by imitating proper models. Notes that the trick to using imitation in writing instruction is knowing how to assign imitations and differentiate them carefully from plagiarism. Offers exercises as suggestions and student writing as illustrations. (RL)

An argument for using various letter writing assignments to help students develop their writing voices. (RL)

Journalism students' interviews of public officials revealed the officials' attitudes toward the press while giving students needed practical experience. (RL)

Describes a social studies program in which generalized assignments are given for the development of comprehension and study skills and which emphasizes student responsibility for learning. (MKM)

The use of longer mathematics assignments with fourth- and sixth-grade students resulted in improved student behavior and a greater number of correct answers. (Editor)

Described is an attention-getting assignment in a college level developmental psychology course in which students were given a list of 24 library research questions on the first day of class to be completed and discussed on the third day. Student reaction to the assignment is discussed. (Author/DB)

Having students write report-type critical appraisals of completed business research work is suggested as a valuable tool in giving beginning or advanced business students practical business information and experience. A critique outline is included. (TA)

Contends that readings on social class in the United States are rarely given in college (with textbooks being "particularly weak" in this area). Lists and annotates 11 articles and books that may be given to remedy that situation. (PA)

Offers suggestions for teaching dyslexic students from a graduate student who teaches composition and is himself dyslexic. Recommends the following strategies: one-on-one help, study skills assignments, individual strategies, step-by-step process, oral discussion, topics of interest to the student, and questions to build confidence. (PA)

Reports on an experimental enterprise in which a writing course and a mathematics course were linked together so that writing was incorporated into mathematics instruction and problem solving was emphasized in writing instruction. Describes two writing assignments and two mathematic assignments. Contains student responses to the assignments. (TB)

Describes an approach, called "dependent authorship," to reading literature and writing literature that is used in the middle grades through the college level and that is effective both in teaching writing and in promoting careful reading. Notes that students use a published literary work as a foundation for their own creative writing. (SR)

Develops a college-level writing assignment using Adrienne Kennedy's autobiography, a multisectioned list poem. Discusses why the personal list poem is appealing and how lists--a simple but generative form--work well for students. States that students wrote a succession of paragraphs about people in their lives who had influenced them. Gives…

Presents a dialog among three English teachers concerning teaching performance poetry to ninth graders. (RS)