This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 38 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) revision using electronic word processing; (2) photography as an intervention strategy in the verbal composing process; (3) the effects of planning processes and communicative effectiveness of competent writers; (4) the aims and methods of interactive response to student writing; (5) the utilization of computer technology as a means of teaching and evaluating prewriting processes; (6) teacher attitudes and practices in composition instruction; (7) the logic of business writing; (8) the effect of the small peer writing group; (9) topic, theme, and mode in unassigned writing of first grade students using invented spelling in an open classroom; (10) effects of newspaper reading, free writing, and guided writing on writing quality; (11) heuristic approaches to the teaching of creative writing at the college level; (12) critical thinking and writing; (13) F. Christensen's generative rhetoric and its influence on the syntactic maturity and writing effectiveness of selected freshman students; (14) the effects of sentence combining on writing ability; (15) students' perceptions of practices in composition instruction in grades three, four, five, and six; (16) the development of an interactive technical writing curriculum through action research. (HOD)