Describes a creative writing program in which second and fourth grade students wrote and read their poetry. (FL)

Defines different types of student journals and assesses them worth an allocation of class time based on research and samples of student work. (CRH)

Argues that teachers of young children need to recognize and take advantage of suitable opportunities to model their writing skills. Offers examples of possible activities. (FL)

Presents excerpts of letters written by children to their favorite children's authors, discussing how the letter writing experience parallels authors' experiences. Also presents responses from some of the authors. (HTH)

Describes five prewriting activities for courses that emphasize writing and deemphasize discussion of literature. The activities focus on organization and theme statement so that students think about every possible subject, theme, and approach. (HTH)

Describes two methods of getting students involved in relevant, business writing assignments: reaction papers to business journal articles and exercises in which communication students dictate letters to shorthand students. (AEA)

Discusses a method that reinforces and monitors "correct" writing and editing, reviews the rhetoric for "effective" writing, and demonstrates how specific technical writing tasks fit into an engineer's everyday writing. An example of a technical writing task used in sophomore engineering classes is included. (JN)

Suggests the use of driving directions to help two-year college students understand how the rhetorical principles learned in freshman composition apply to technical writing, and to render the concept of "technical writing" less threatening to the uninitiated students. (HTH)

Discusses a degree requirement of a Bachelor of Management Studies program at a New Zealand University: the writing of an investigative report for a company or government department. (AEA)

Offers four suggestions for making composition instruction more useful to the student. (HOD)

Describes a lesson designed to help children explore their fears and to discuss and write about them. (TO)

Creative writing helps children to develop the ability to think imaginatively and to express their ideas and feelings effectively and constructively. Properly motivated, it is an enjoyable acitivity that should be carried out more than once a year. (Author)

Sixth-grade pupils wrote, illustrated and bound books for children in a Head Start program, testing them first on kindergartners in their own school. They thus gained a better understanding of what they themselves do when they read. (PD)