This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 23 titles provide information on a variety of topics, including the following: (1) voice and the fictional narrative; (2) the effects of oral response groups before and after rough drafts on writing achievement and apprehension; (3) an interdisciplinary approach to teaching freshman composition; (4) oral history in the college composition classroom; (5) learning centered writing as a teaching method; (6) the effect of sentence combining practice on the reduction of syntactic errors in basic writing; (7) the one-to-one student writing conference; (8) the influence of freshman English on college students' writing skills; (9) writers who teach; (10) the development of analytic discourse; (11) the development and instructional facilitation of whole-text planning in children's story writing; (12) the construction of an instrument to measure written content in personal journals; (13) composing process case studies, their implications for teaching, and their role in model building; and (14) textual linkages. (FL)