Describes a project incorporating writing-to-learn activities into an introductory finance class. Discusses benefits to students and teachers. (SR)

Describes a unit for an international business communication course that focuses on the international business meal as a way to learn important social and cultural knowledge, skills, and attitudes. (SR)

Suggestions for using drama to help students learn about disabilities are given by a professional theatrical group in which actors portray disabled people and answer questions in character. Steps for developing a class skit about a person with a disability and for starting a similar acting troupe are given. (DB)

Discusses the complexities of plagiarism, looks at recent examples, and details classroom experiences with students as they attempt to define and control the practice. (SR)

Discusses four difficulties in teaching business communication: lack of shared organizational vision; lack of reality; class duration; and lack of direction in textbooks. Presents advantages and disadvantages of using a simulated organization to address these problems and to improve students' communication competence in various situations.…

Presents six teaching suggestions from classroom teachers regarding creative scenarios with literary figures, lemons in the classroom (to aid descriptive writing), conferences using a computer, organizational patterns in writing, an epistolary icebreaker in composition, and using five-minute writings as review. (SR)

Describes how incorporating an acting unit into traditional English courses allows students to act out the language, the plot, and the moral and social issues of a play. Offers teaching suggestions and class exercises and activities. (SR)

Presents the first of a series of four articles that offer ideas and activities that can help students see the relevancy of social science in their lives. Focuses on family issues. (SR)

Describes a project for middle school students that uses the computer to support student investigation of constitutional issues, called "Putting Rights on Line for 21st Century Citizens." (SR)

Describes the Polaroid Education Program. Discusses ways to incorporate instant photography and writing into a range of subject areas. (SR)

Recommends that student publications, to address the issue of diversity, first determine how well the publication reflects its reading community, via content analysis exercises. Describes several class activities in which students carry these out. (SR)

Considers how English teachers, by building a complementary relationship with the workplace, can prepare students better for success in the coming century. Focuses on ways of revolutionizing writing instruction with real world problems. Discusses three examples of real workplace projects demonstrating the notion of writing as problem solving. (HB)

Describes a program called "Writing for the Public" that allows students to revise and rewrite documents such as memos, instructions, or brochures. Shows how one high school English teacher instituted the program in his senior class. Provides some student response to the program. (HB)

Presents a teaching strategy that uses modeling, discussion, and group work to teach reading research strategies in context. (SR)

Describes how to use word processing with first graders in lessons exploring oral and written language via the computer. Suggests ways to use the language experience approach in whole-class as well as small-group instruction. (SR)