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Designed to serve as a framework from which high school debate students, coaches, and judges can evaluate the issues, arguments, and evidence present in sustaining and reforming the U.S. justice system, this booklet provides debaters with guidelines for research on the 1983-84 debate resolutions selected by the National University Continuing Education Association's Committee on Discussion and Debate. Following the presentation of the problem area and the three resolutions, the book's five chapters cover: (1) getting started, a review of useful information on researching the topic of the U.S. justice system; (2) an overview to the U.S. justice system; (3) the criminal investigation resolution; (4) the civil court procedure; and (5) the criminal court procedure. (JL)

Designed to serve as a framework from which high school debate students, coaches, and judges can evaluate the issues, arguments, and evidence present in sustaining and reforming the United States welfare system, this booklet provides guidelines for research on the 1984-85 debate resolutions selected by the National Federation of State High School Associations. Following the presentation of the problem area and the three debate resolutions, the booklet's four chapters discuss (1) useful information and sources for researching the topic of welfare reforms, (2) poverty in the United States, (3) income maintenance proposals, and (4) federal employment guarantees. (HTH)

Useful for writing teachers at all levels, this monograph explores the nature of writing apprehension and presents nonthreatening teaching and evaluation methods. The first section of the booklet examines theory and research on writing anxiety and its effects, along with some teaching behaviors likely to aggravate the problem. The second section reviews teaching approaches for reducing anxiety, explaining how to introduce the writing process and discussing model lessons. In considering evaluation procedures, this section suggests a strategy for helping students understand evaluation criteria, offers advice on grouping students for peer criticism, and describes effective grading practices. (HTH)

Intended to help secondary school composition instructors develop a useful, pragmatic unit on technical writing, this monograph explores the theory, research, and pedagogy of technical writing. The first section discusses the purpose and forms of technical writing, as well as elements of technical style including diction, paragraphing, and emphasis. The second half provides writing exercises emphasizing the elements of technical style and the prewriting and writing stages. The book concludes with a discussion of revision in technical writing. (HTH)

Intended for teachers in communications and the language arts who are contemplating alternatives to teaching, this booklet provides a basic approach to communication consulting with fundamental definitions and practical guides to basic consulting principles. The first section of the booklet briefly discusses approaches to consulting and sources of consulting information. The second section looks at consulting in practice, examines prerequisite skills and suggests how to market them, describes the structure of workshops, seminars, and employee communication programs that make up consulting activities, and evaluates the results of consulting efforts. A bibliography and the addresses of communication associations are included. (HTH)

Developed by the National Council of Teachers of English Committee to Evaluate Curriculum Guidelines and Competency Requirements, this guide is intended to help teachers and administrators develop exemplary English language arts curricula. The first half of the booklet presents an annotated list of committee-recommended curriculum guides, representing a variety of sample frameworks, units, and lesson plans intended for reference use by schools and agencies in the process of developing or revising a curriculum. Grouped according to the year in which the guides were recommended (1983, 1982, and 1981), each annotation provides information on grade level, content, aims and objectives, and how to obtain the guide. The second half of the booklet contains a statement of criteria for planning and evaluating English language arts curriculum guides. Criteria are organized under the headings of philosophy, policies and procedure, objectives, organization, process as content, language, composition, media, reading and literature, evaluation, and design. (HTH)

Intended to help elementary school language arts teachers provide students with opportunities for unprescribed writing according to a natural writing process, this booklet discusses research and practice in the writing process and creating a supportive classroom environment. The first part of the booklet examines theory and research on the stages and fluctuations of the writing process, the use of memory in invention, the rewriting process, and writing interests and attitudes. The second half of the booklet explores ideas and suggestions for discovering when extra writing time is needed and by which students, and ideas for incorporating more off-stage thinking time into the language arts curriculum. (HTH)

Intended for composition teachers who see "editor/writer" conferences as the ideal teaching strategy, this booklet offers a procedure for training tutors--staff or students--to respond skillfully to a writer's work in a one-to-one context. The first half of the booklet discusses theory and research regarding the tutorial process and some principles underlying the subsequent tutorial model. The second half examines the writing and tutoring processes, and presents a schedule for training tutors. (HTH)

Three installments of "Classic of the Month," a regular feature of the National Council of Teachers of English publication, "Notes Plus," are presented in this compilation. Each installment of this feature is intended to provide teaching ideas related to a "classic" novel. The first article offers a variety of activities based on "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane. Included are questions for class discussion and suggestions for preliminary small-group activities, library projects, writing assignments, and follow-up small-group activities. The second article describes a 12-day unit on Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea." Instructions are given for each day of the unit as well as a list of topics for student position papers based on the novel. The final article presents activities related to "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens. Questions for class discussion are given along with ideas for writing assignments, class projects, and small-group or individual projects. (DC)

Three installments of "Ideas from the Classroom," a regular feature of the National Council of Teachers of English publication, "Notes Plus," are presented in this compilation. "Ideas from the Classroom" offers a variety of teacher-submitted activities for English and language arts instruction. The three articles in this compilation include: (1) nine writing exercises which are appropriate for the beginning of the school year; (2) 20 activities and games that focus on words; and (3) eight activities for talking and writing about literature. (DC)

Three installments of "Writing Assignment of the Month," a regular feature of the National Council of Teachers of English publication, "Notes Plus," are presented in this compilation. The articles describe writing exercises which have proven to be successful in the classroom. The first article gives suggestions for introducing students to mapping, a prewriting technique which uses graphic representations of information as an aid in organizing ideas for written and oral compositions. An example of mapping and a student essay derived from a map are included. The second article offers detailed instructions for a two-week writing unit which uses comparisons of film critiques from a variety of publications to teach writing and research skills. The guidelines include objectives and day-by-day instructions. The final article describes two methods of using writing as a means of enhancing learning across the curriculum. The methods, speculative and double-entry journal writing, involve stopping frequently while reading in order to write down observations and thoughts. It is stressed that this type of writing is a process rather than product. (DC)

Two installments of "Young Adult Literature" are presented in this compilation. "Young Adult Literature," which offers reviews of young adult books, is a regular feature of the National Council of Teachers of English publication, "Notes Plus." The articles included in this compilation give favorable reviews to two novels and two autobiographies. The books are: (1) "A Formal Feeling" by Zibby Oneal; (2) "IOU's" by Ouida Sebestyen; (3) "Chapters: My Growth as a Writer" by Lois Duncan; and (4) "Me Me Me Me: Not a Novel" by M.E. Kerr. (DC)