This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 14 titles deal with the following topics: the composing processes of four twelfth-grade students; the relationship of writing quality to syntax; the development of language variables in two modes of writing and their relationship to reading comprehension in the primary grades; factors of style in prose for children; the interests and concerns of adolescents as expressed in their written composition; the relationship between personality type and writing achievement; cognitive egocentrism and written discourse; stylistic discriminants of good and poor writing at the tenth-grade level; the use of syntactic punctuation in student writing in grades eight, ten, and twelve; causes of failure to learn to write; psychological and stylistic correlates of writing behavior; the needs and concepts of individual students in a post-secondary remedial writing program; a case study of remedial writers in selected two-year colleges; and the relationship between reading achievement and writing achievement among college freshmen. (GW)