Research from various fields supports the crucial relationship of speech and writing. Experience with the Story Workshop used in composition classes can show how thinking, speaking, listening, reading, writing, recalling, and immediate audience focus can be integrated into every phase of the writing process. Activities must enable students find subject matter that intrigues and stimulates them, and over which they have control. The use of group discussion in semi-circles during topic development allows every nuance of oral telling and audience reaction to be either observable or "hearable" to the audience. Literary forms and models that have a built-in sense of audience, such as letters, how-tos, and speeches, are quickly accessible to beginning college students. Well-coached, effective oral reading provides written language a pleasurable integrative pace and demonstration more closely akin to the way perception, thinking, and language come together and function in the actual act of writing. Recall and comment activities use the power of speech to develop memorable principles of the use of written language out of the stimulated and coached behavioral repertory of the students themselves. With coaching while beginning a piece in class, students carry the sense of the immediate audience into the situation where they write alone, fictionalizing the audience, thus stimulating and building their capacity for inner sounding and listening while they write. When reading their in-class writing aloud, students hear immediately the transfer of what occurred in the oral tellings, what occurred in the prewriting mental and oral rehearsal and build-up. In almost every case, there will be effective written language behavior to recognize and build upon, however small. A bibliography of four pages is included. (HTH)