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This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 27 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: teaching freshman college English through the use of black female autobiographies; the analysis and production of television commercials, gaming, and self-paced methods; teaching composition through the use of operant conditioning, individualized approaches, and an oral proofreading technique; the process of composition; teaching composition to educationally disadvantaged college students, community college students, and high school juniors; designing composition courses; the relationship between course grade, attitude toward the course, and college adjustment; self-exploration and enhancement of self image through creative writing; the use of the community as a writing resource; the use of transformational sentence combining exercises with third grader students; the effect of various types of responses to student writing on student attitude and writing performance; James Britton and the teaching of writing in British schools; a program in daily creative writing; and the effects of sensory experiences on student perception as measured in written composition. (GW)

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 25 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) ensemble as a process of actor training; (2) perspectives on the verbal performance of jest, abuse, and contest; (3) a course design for teaching black drama; (4) adapting chamber theatre for television; (5) theories of theatrical criticism; (6) the trial convention in English Renaissance drama; (7) public theater in Renaissance England and Spain; (8) the aesthetic dimensions of drama in education; (9) children performing poetry as a way of learning; (10) evaluation of a sixth grade creative dramatics program; (11) historical studies of American drama; (12) audience response to interpersonal distance in live and in videotaped theatre scenes and its implications for teaching methodology; and (13) the relationship of self-perception and audience members' perceptions of stage characters. (RL)

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 18 titles are as follows: (1) Physical and Oral Behaviors of the Solo Interpretive Performer; (2) Music in English Children's Drama; (3) Playwriting in the Maritime Provinces: 1845-1903; (4) Dance in Denver's Pioneer Theatres: 1859-1871; (5) The American Shakespeare Theatre: A Production History, 1955-1984; (6) The Vanquished Christ of Modern Passion Drama; (7) The One-Person Show in America: From the Victorian Platform to the Contemporary Stage; (8) Directing Tragedy: An Exploration of the Staging Problems and Stage History of Macbeth as a Tragic Form; (9) Native Americans as Shown on the Stage, 1753-1916; (10) A Poetic/Dramatic Approach to Facilitate Oral Communication; (11) Acting and Directing with the Aid of Music and Sound; (12) Playwriting Contests and Jacksonian Democracy, 1829-1841; (13) Rhetorical Strategies of Chicago Regional Theatres in the 1970's: A Case Study of Audience Development; (14) Theatre in Wartime Britain, 1793-1802; (15) Drama in Newfoundland Society: The Community Concert; (16) Gold Rush Theatre in the Alaska-Yukon Frontier; (17) The Play's the Thing: A Theatrical Model for Presenting Authors in the English Classroom; and (18) Drama in Opera: A Logic of Opera and of Opera Criticism. (DF)