Claims that the long list of traditionally accepted news values can be replaced with a single concept, vividness, and that vivid information may not be the best information. Blames much of the alleged deficiencies associated with journalistic practice such as sensationalism and preoccupation with conflict on the journalistic practice of writing to…

Writing is a key component in developing mathematics thinking and understanding. Four strategies to encourage student writing to describe thinking and reasoning are offered. Teachers can use this writing to verify student understanding of mathematical concepts. (MT)

For students who have difficulty finding material for writing formal business and technical reports, suggests keeping a file folder of clippings about new products and services taken from a leading newspaper.(NH)

Discusses how computer programing and expository writing are both based on the ability to (1) recognize that a complex whole is composed of manageable parts, and (2) identify the necessary steps for achieving a goal or supporting a generality, and (3) concentrate on and summarize a large amount of information into an abbreviated, succinct…

Explores the physical characteristics of text and how they help the reader, suggesting that if teachers encouraged students to experiment with visible features of written texts, it would increase their ability to understand and use hierarchical and classificatory arrangements in their own writing. (HTH)

Through 77 targeted, high-powered writing activities and detailed directions for guiding the activities, author and master storyteller Kendall Haven provides teachers of grades 3-9 with a complete writing program that ensures student success. These field-tested writing strategies and techniques create a carefully sequenced and balanced approach…

Discusses the translator's obligation to render the meaning of the text as well as its formal aspects. (DD)

Urges professional writers to consider their audience, persona, and subject matter when preparing manuscripts for submission. (DD)

Paper originally delivered at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in April, 1971, in which the author described the ways in which the short film, The Game," is used as a tool in role-playing techniques and in stimulating creative writing. (DR)

Some suggestions as to how to transfer training from narration and description to exposition, and how to extend Christensen principles to deal with the whole composition. (Author)

A report on an attempt to evaluate progress in improving written language in the elementary schools. (Author)

Writing a composition should be an exercise in thinking, as well as an exercise in using one's language. (CK)