Presents three activities designed motivate student journal writing as a way to help students confront personal fears and open dialogue between troubled students and teachers. (HTH)

Outlines a step-by-step procedure for teaching late elementary or junior high school students how to write a term paper. (HOD)

Examines the recent ESL research of Stephen Krashen and shows how it applies to developmental students. Discusses successful strategies, such as small group activities, to use in basic writing instruction. (DF)

Explores ways in which an expository writing class can encompass training in both professional writing and in the humanities. Presents a writing assignment that combines research in the humanities with writing for decision makers. (HTH)

Describes a competition involving political science honors students in which teams from Miami and Purdue universities prepared and delivered papers taking opposing positions on contemporary topics. Reviews the benefits of the project for students and their teachers and suggests ways similar benefits can be achieved using a student cluster approach…

Explains how photographs were used to generate language and to teach the form of expository prose to inner city sixth-grade students. (FL)

Proposes that student familiarity with the various kinds of documents produced in industry will reduce the shock of discovering the difference between writing for the classroom and writing for business and industry. (EL)

Presents a writing assignment that requires lawyers in a technical writing class to address the needs of a client who is unhappy with a lawyer and with the language used by the lawyer in a legal document. (FL)

To explore the structure of academic work in classrooms, a case analysis was conducted of the academic tasks accomplished in three English classes taught by the same teacher. The authors conclude that the study contributes to the development of a language with which to describe curriculum dimensions of the teaching process. (MJL)

Explains how providing a general theme and a varied audience for writing helped improve student research papers. (FL)

This book, part of a series which serve as guides for K-12 teachers who are striving to align lively, classroom-tested practices with standards, gathers together brief articles spotlighting suggestions for effective instruction. Beginning with activities that help students think through the audience and purpose for their writing, this book offers…

Outlined is a body of knowledge, the core of sociology, that belongs in the introductory sociology course. How the course is taught is also important. Class sections should be small; students should be required to write a great deal; and an informal, but structured setting should stimulate student- teacher interaction. (Author/RM)

"Compupoem" is a program that helps students write poems, emphasizes process/product, and encourages divergent problem-solving. A description of the program, sample student session, and an example of a completed poem are provided. The Computers and Poetry Project which produces elementary/secondary-level, interactive poetry-writing…

Suggests the importance of George Orwell's "1984" for today's students and recommends specific analytic and descriptive writing activities to develop critical reading skills. (MM)

Uses personal experience to show how writing instructors can help students articulate their audience and purpose, use written products purposefully, identify the intellectual demands of their task, and then consciously formulate their ideas in light of these demands. (MM)