Designed to help teachers empower students to become thinkers, writers, and especially authors, this book helps teachers develop a writer's mindset in grades 2-6 students. It supports and guides teachers from the week before school through the spring Young Author's Conference that recognizes writing achievement. Chapters in the book are: (1) Kids…

This paper describes how a language teacher educator guides her students through a particular literacy research project, with the goal of helping students to enjoy their research experience. It outlines two stages to make up the entire assignment--the interview and the paper. It describes the development of questions for the purpose of gaining…

Questions the semantic behavior of English teachers in classroom situations, demanding of them the same high standards and communication accuracy they demand of their students. (RB)

As a substitute for the conventional term papers, this project was designed to help freshmen learn to pick and analyze a specific topic within a given subject field, to develop the ability to find printed source material and knowledgeable people in the subject, and to evaluate their source material objectively. (Author/SN)

Describes the difficulties students have in learning to read textbooks togain information for content areas and notes ways in which the teacher should promote textbook readiness. Bibliography. (RW)

Lists and discusses a sequence of first-of-term writing assignments designed to stimulate students' thinking about the goals of an English course and to involve them in the planning of it. (RD)

The educational advantages and features of learning centers are presented. (Author/MF)

To examine the effect of learning contracts on independent study students, study contracts were offered to high school and university students. The contracts were found to be effective in stimulating students to complete initial assignments, but their effect on course completion rate was weak. (CJ)

Outlines an approach to teaching technical writing that combines the traditional lecture/discussion and the conference/tutorial methods and emphasizes a great deal of writing practice across various writing forms. (RL)

Solves the problem of student diversity in technical writing courses by proposing a thematic approach to course content, with appropriate materials arranged in a classroom library of case studies. (RL)

A reminiscence of Willard Hurst with reference to events occurring over more than a quarter-century is presented. Emphasis is on the training of graduate law students in legal historical research. (Journal available from: University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, WI 53706, $4.00.) (MLW)

Undergraduate engineering students were required to write research papers and present them to the class, which would prepare appraisals and discuss the work. The original authors would then rework their papers. An analysis of this approach is presented and indicates that it is a useful educational strategy. (Author/JMD)