The 24 articles in this special journal resulted from the Licking County (Ohio) Writing Project. The articles provide information about the following: (1) how to motivate students and teachers, (2) prewriting activities, (3) lightening the teacher's grading load, (4) the uses of conferences, (5) sustained silent reading, (6) traditional techniques to teach sentence combining, (7) using imitation of master writers as a means of teaching style, (8) group writing, (9) ungraded student writing, (10) a writing process exercise for teachers, (11) approaches to grading, (12) the one-room school, (13) an exercise in which students write a new ending for a short story, and (14) the benefits of the writing project for those involved. (JL)