Writing Projects.

The 18 articles in the first section of this journal issue provide information about the National Writing Project, while the 22 articles in the second section discuss classroom writing projects. Among the topics discussed in the first section are the National Writing Projects in Arizona, Northeast Texas, and Boston; teacher behavior during inservice education; setting an informed and informing context for a writing project; and high school teachers and freshman composition. Articles in the second section consider the basics as a background for writing, writing as a discipline, the journal as an aid to teaching composition, a process-oriented strategy for teaching organization, student attitudes toward writing class, using choral reading in composition instruction, imitation in the basic writing class, reader-response grammar, peer evaluation of compositions, and evaluating creative writing. (FL)