Describes the use of small writing groups in an advanced expository writing class and why the approach works. Includes a course syllabus. (HTH)

Recounts a semester in which freshman composition students learned the fundamentals of writing and the elements of good writing style by rewriting children's stories in their own words. (RL)

Describes how a teacher teaches a Virginia Woolf book at the beginning of a course in women's literature so that it can serve as a touchstone for later reading and writing. (JL)

Discusses the current state of the teaching of composition, with references to a number of surveys and studies on the topic written from 1894 to the present. (TO)

Details the growth of technical-vocational education in Kuwait to meet the need for skilled workers and technical supervisors. Describes the impact of a 1975 UNESCO team visit. Outlines the Ministry of Education's strategies and resolutions establishing free technical-vocational institutions. Describes the institutes established and Kuwait's…

Presents a plea for the inclusion in our classrooms of literature reflecting the philosophy and culture of all groups of people, not just literature in the Judeo-Christian tradition. (TO)

Recommends assigning a short research essay as a productive alternative to the large research project in the freshman writing class. (JL)

Discusses the difficulties encountered by an academic couple who both entered the job market concurrently. Describes the problems inherent in trying to accommodate two-career couples in the academic field. (HB)

Advocates that in order to serve their community's needs, administrators must encourage instructors to increase their knowledge of technologies such as microcomputers by participating in workshops offered by computer training companies so that students who find microcomputers in equipment they handle on the job will have basic knowledge of them.…

This report tabulates state funding for higher education, comparing 1996-97 and 1995-96 appropriations. It reviews recent trends, fiscal pressures, political realities, reallocation, restructuring, and reorganizations. Among the report's conclusions is that current financing constraints are reflections of fundamental changes in the structure of…

Presents an overview of a three-part heuristic strategy (planning, generating ideas in words, and constructing for an audience) for analytical writing. (DD)

A review of available textbooks and other resources dealing with neo-classical invention, prewriting, tagmemic invention and linguistic theory, the dramatistic method, and invention in speech communication. (DD)

Admonishes faculty members that their fears about student evaluation of teachers are usually groundless in practice and that such evaluations are only one part of the entire evaluation process. (TO)

Argues that a writing-across-the-curriculum program should be designed, administered, and taught equally by all departments in a university. Stresses the importance of developing a dialogic program, with creative interaction between faculty members from various disciplines and between students and professors. (ARH)

Reports the selected results of the latest survey of state-approved schools of nursing in the 56 jurisdictions of the United States conducted annually by the National League of Nursing. (Editor)