Written descriptions of student accomplishments should be required to supplement letter grades.

We may need to make students more rather than less anxious about writing.

The purpose of the Freshmen Composition course should be to provide students opportunities to use the skills their previous English courses have not released. (JH)

A middle ground, between picky concern for correctness and mushy libertarianism, must be found on which to base effective freshman composition courses. (JH)

The browbeaten, apologetic attitude of members of the Conference on College Composition and Communication must be replaced by an assertive self-confidence. (JH)

As composition teachers, we need to learn to stop evaluating the student writer's values and assumptions, and rather evaluate what he does working from those assumptions. (JH)

Observations directed primarily toward future teachers of English concerning a 10-year investigation of freshman student attitudes toward their secondary school English training in retrospect are presented in this article. Based on the patterns of responses evident in the anonymously written student criticisms, the author comments on three…

Buber's ideas about inter-person relationships may offer the basis for a sounder pedagogy than now exists in composition. (JH)

The benefits of a system in which the papers of each instructor's students are graded by another instructor are described. (JH)

The effects of English component of the educational program at a federal prison are discussed. (JH)

For lack of "distance," many teachers respond too strongly to the wrong things in student papers.

A questionnaire survey of 3,000 college teachers revealed that professors in courses other than English are concerned about English usage and are able to recognize usage errors. (DD)

Discusses the attitudes of the general public, the educational establishment, and departments of English toward research in composition. (DD)

An analysis of, and an attempt to reconcile, two opposing views on the teaching of composition: the structured or rhetorical'', and the unstructured or romantic''. (SP)

Author's assumption that his students were interested in now" topics, such as revolution, for theme writing, was proven erroneous by means of a current events questionaire he gave to his Freshman English classes. (DR)