A variety of process-oriented writing instruction strategies are presented in this focused journal issue. Article titles and authors are as follows: (1) "Central Reference to the Rescue" (Rod Kessler); (2)"Brainstorming: A Heuristic that Works" (Frank C. Cronin); (3) "Brainstorming: A Valuable Supplemental Technique for Teaching Writing" (Barret Marshall Briggs); (4) "Pre-Writing Strategies for Writing about Literature" (John Hollowell); (5) "Whose Purpose Is It Anyway?" (Nancy B. Lester); (6) "Writing for Personal Discovery: A Unit" (Barbara Lounsberry); (7) "Teaching Oral Language Skills as a Precursor to Teaching Composition" (Katherine Jones Loheyde); (8) "R W S L" (Don Woods); (9) "The Tape Recorder: A Bridge from Thoughts to Writing" (Matthew Diomede); (10) "A Focused Look at Vocational Writers" (Susan Warters and Anna Kae McIvor); (11) "A Sequence of Assignments for College Basic Writers" (Kathryn Allen); (12) "Teaching the Test Essay" (Valjeane Olenn Trumpower); (13) "Modes of Discourse as Points of View: A Practical System" (Steven Robins); (14) "Revision: Its Scope, Function, and Value" (Gary Sloan); (15) "The Revision Process for Remedial Writers" (Criss E. Cannady); (16) "Kenneth Burke's Logological Analysis: A Heuristic for the Whole of the Writing Process" (Charles W. Bridges and Ronald F. Lunsford); (17) "From Soup to Nuts: the 'Whole' Writing Process" (James P. Beck); (18) "Responding to Student Essays with the 'Writing Profile'" (Robert S. Hughes, Jr.); (19) "More than Practice Makes Perfect" (Sally McLean and Harold M. Bergsma); and (20)"Generative Rhetoric: A Course of Study in Grammar and Composition" (Leo H. Croteau). A book review by Jim Hepworth and a Monday morning teaching section--"Semantics Simulation" (Elaine Caret); "Mystery Writing" (Douglas L. Decker); and "Word Association as a Pre-Writing Activity" (Pam Davenport)--are included. (JD)