This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 23 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) teachers' written comments on the transactional writing of high school seniors; (2) the effect of a training program on the fluctuation of raters' scoring of writing compositions; (3) basic writers in freshman composition classes; (4) elementary school writing programs; (5) constructive feedback for evaluating student writing; (6) revision practices; (7) a values clarification component in freshman composition; (8) motivational and developmental factors in college composition teaching; (9) the writing-as-process model as a means for improving high school students' compositions and writing attitudes; (10) dependency analysis as a tool for teaching writing; (11) printed text, talked books, and abstraction ladders; and (12) national writing projects. (FL)