This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 11 titles deal with the following topics: the use of audiovisual media in teaching composition; the historical development of the Conference on College Composition and Communication; collaborative methods for teaching college freshmen in remedial writing classes; Project WRITE, a Title III funded individualized writing project in San Diego high schools; writing as a composing process; the ways in which Hughes Mearns, Martha Peck Porter, Alvina Treut Burrows, and Flora Arnstein developed creative writing programs during the progressive era; a comparison of an investigator-developed and a commercially published writing curriculum designed to increase elaborating skills; content area writing in Florida high schools; methods for teaching formal English writing; a multi-cultural approach to teaching college composition; and the effects of sentence combining practice for students in remedial college English classes. (GW)