This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 27 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: teaching freshman college English through the use of black female autobiographies; the analysis and production of television commercials, gaming, and self-paced methods; teaching composition through the use of operant conditioning, individualized approaches, and an oral proofreading technique; the process of composition; teaching composition to educationally disadvantaged college students, community college students, and high school juniors; designing composition courses; the relationship between course grade, attitude toward the course, and college adjustment; self-exploration and enhancement of self image through creative writing; the use of the community as a writing resource; the use of transformational sentence combining exercises with third grader students; the effect of various types of responses to student writing on student attitude and writing performance; James Britton and the teaching of writing in British schools; a program in daily creative writing; and the effects of sensory experiences on student perception as measured in written composition. (GW)