A teacher at a junior college with a high percentage of Chicano students finds that a buddy system" approach to in-class writing improves student motivation and writing skills. (MN)

Writing assignments designed to be interesting to students related to business letter writing, creative writing, and playwriting. (DB)

Because children are experts in at least one subject--themselves--their best written work is usually autobiographical. This article suggests various specific autobiographical writing assignments teachers might want to use with their students. (JMK)

Describes a teaching game for bibliographic formatting that emphasizes the importance of noting author, title, and publication information precisely while using accurate formatting and punctuation. (HTH)

Offers writing assignments and exercises for students in grades one through eight. (HOD)

Presents opposing views on the wisdom of teaching student writers to write for an "audience." (JL)

Insists upon the importance of poetry and provides a procedure for introducing both students and teachers to the writing and appreciation of poems. (JL)

Suggests teaching students four processes for improving sentences: addition, subtraction, substitution, and transposition. (JL)

Shows how the eagerness to learn and the wealth of experience of senior adults makes a composition course in autobiography particularly effective for such students. (JL)

Explains how to use various periodicals to demonstrate to composition students that writing style is both accessible and controllable. (AEA)

Argues that asking students to write in concrete images about specific events and places serves to emphasize the importance of writing from detailed personal experiences. (RL)

Represents an exchange of "official notices" on the uses and misuses of workbooks in the teaching of writing. (MKM)

Suggests supplementary spelling activities involving selection of a phonetic element and construction of student-generated word lists. Designed for fifth graders, the activities can be adapted to any grade level. (CM)

Presents a practice report that profiles the use of collaborative writing techniques in a dual-diagnosis drug and alcohol treatment program. Provides examples of typical patient-generated collaborative poems. Concludes that collaborative group poetry, when effectively facilitated, can generate a meaningful process-discussion toward values…

Notes the villanelle is one of English poetry's most demanding forms. Discusses two distinct ways in which a villanelle unfolds - as a satellite or as a snowball. Describes how the meaning of the repeating lines in a snowball villanelle change and increase with each recurrence. Presents exercises for teaching the villanelle. (SG)