This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 15 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: personal expressiveness in creative writing programs; generative rhetoric and writing performance; the effects of sentence combining exercises on syntactic maturity, writing quality, reading ability, and student attitudes; lyric poetry writing; transformational grammar; peer evaluation of student writing; the effects of instruction in five components of the writing process on writing quality and syntactic complexity; remedial writing instruction; a language study approach to college freshman composition; teaching editing; the Iowa Writers' Workshop; a structured program for teaching composition in the secondary school; changing patterns in the teaching of composition from 1930 to 1976; and student awareness of teacher criteria for evaluating writing as an element in the composing process. (FL)