Article: Writing, orality, cinema: the 'story' of Citizen Kane.(Critical essay)

Article: Words open window to secret of healthy writing.(The Dallas Morning News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  July 16, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Writing is such a wonderful job that anybody who does it ought to be happy. OK, let's not exaggerate. But writing does have its benefits. In fact, several famous writers have mentioned how much writing has helped them cope with life's misfortunes, such as mental...

Article: Writing Assignments -- Are students getting enough of them?
Yakima Herald-Republic;  April 30, 2003 ;     573 words ...Writing has become so neglected in America's classrooms that most students can't create precise...prose, according to a national report. To address the problem the National Commission on Writing in America's Schools and Colleges has called for a writing revolution. Commission members are challenging schools ...

Article: Who cares about writing? We do!
University Affairs;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...A writing studies professor offers a spirited reply...graduate studies Those of us in the field of writing studies are delighted to find a positive response to the question "Who cares about writing, anyway?" (University Affairs, April 2008...

Article: Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c.950-1300.(Book Review)
Canadian Journal of History;  August 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c.950-1300, by Simon Franklin. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi, 325 pp. $98.00 Cdn (cloth). Writing about writing, a task which occupies a significant portion of a historian's professional career, has often occurred without sustained...

Article: What's new in ... the formative assessment of writing.(Forms and Functions of Formative Assessment)
The Clearing House;  November 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Writing assessment continues to be of unprecedented concern to...Virtually every state legislature has mandated tests of writing, the first commonly surfacing at grade four, the last in the senior high school. Unfortunately, it can be argued that writing tests help to determine where one falls, and where ...

Article: Review of Because Writing Matters.(Because Writing Matters: Improving Student Writing in Our Schools)(Book review)
Journal of Teacher Education;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...National Writing Project & Nagin, Carl. 2003. Because Writing Matters: Improving Student Writing in Our Schools. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 160 pages. DOI: 10.1177/0022487105284478 The evolution of writing pedagogy in the United States during...

Article: Publish or perish: writing under pressure.(Inspirations)
Pediatric Nursing;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Writing for publication is difficult for many nurses. It's not...pressure of time when we sit down to write. In addition, writing itself often brings a knot of pressures. What should we...anxieties that prompted the dream that initiated this piece of writing for me. Dream Tips for Writing I heard ...

Article: Craft meets art as professors try Writing Across the Curriculum
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator;  January 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Writing Across the Curriculum began in the mid-1970s as merely...English professors whose cause is to advance the idea of writing as a means of improving learning and whose main approach...faculty, who work in a field more intimately connected with writing than most, tend to shy away from teaching the ...

Article: Writing for the Health Professions.(Book Review)
Hospital Topics;  June 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Writing for the Health Professions, Karl Terryberry, Clifton Park, NY: Delmar Learning, 2005, 347 pages, $44.95. One of the most necessary skills for healthcare professionals today is the ability to clearly communicate both verbally and in writing. Writing for the Health Professions is a reference guide for ...

Article: The Neglected "R" THE NEED FOR A WRITING REVOLUTION; National Commission on Writing in America's Schools and Colleges Issues Report
The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education;  September 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ..."Writing, education's second "R," has become the...Thus reports the National Commission on Writing in America's Schools and Colleges, a blue-ribb...of the Commission is a loud message that writing is important," declares Gaston Caperton...

Article: Secret to good writing? Rewriting!
University Affairs;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...A writing coach advises instructors how to teach...write no matter what discipline you teach "Writing should be a part of all [university] courses...write," asserts Toby Fulwiler. "And good writing can be a whole lot of things - like a passive...

Article: Help students who struggle with writing become better writers. (20 Ways To ...).
Intervention in School & Clinic;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Writing is often the ignored stepchild of reading, especially for...write. Students who struggle to write too often construe writing as perfect spelling and grammar and/or neat penmanship...spelling, grammar, and penmanship are critical tools for writing, it is important to remember that writing is ...

Article: Writing Partnerships: Service-Learning in Composition
Composition Studies;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Writing Partnerships: Service-Learning in Composition by Thomas...profession: How can we motivate students to see the value of writing? How can we help students to ask the questions writers...what Joseph Petraglia calls the "pseudotransactions" of writing in classrooms? How can we expose students to diverse ...

Article: Work in progress: publishing writing center scholarship.
Writing Lab Newsletter;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world, ... enabling...conversations. Indeed, as many of us recall, Christina Murphy has commented on the need to strengthen research on writing centers. When writing center faculty and staff employ an arm ...