National Writing Project

The Quarterly

Vol. 3, No. 1, 1980

Book Review: Basic Writing, by Lawrence C. Kasden and Daniel R. Hoeber
By Bruce Appleby

Book Review: Searching Writing, by Ken Macrorie
By Jerry Herman
The writer recommends Macrorie's text for its "freshness, its good sense, its readability and its subversion of many oafish traditions connected with the school research paper....

Moffett, Freshman Comp, and the Teaching of Writing
By Richard Murphy
Murphy rebuts the "implication" of Moffett's essay "Confessions of an Ex-College Freshman" that good essays can be written without skills in vocabulary, organization, and logic and that to teach these skills is "regressive....

Network Notes
By NWP Staff

New BAWP Publications
By NWP Staff

Teachers Teaching Teachers in England
By Mary K. Healy

The Discipline of Composition: Making Students Smarter
By Sheridan Blau

The Problem of Teacher Authority
By Miles Myers

The Teacher as Researcher
By Marian M. Mohr

What Happens when Teacher/Consultants Become Curiouser and Curiouser?
By Don Gallehr

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