What English Teachers Need to Know about Writing -- Maintaining Students' Positive Attitudes toward Writing -- How You Become an Effective Instructor of Writing -- What Do You Already Know about Writing? -- How Can This Book Help You to Become an Effective Writing Instructor? -- New Goals for Writing Instruction -- Composition Research: New Approaches -- Technology and Teaching Writing -- Teaching the Writing Process -- Teaching the Writing Process through Self-Reflection -- Teaching the Writing Process: Strategies for Composing -- Prewriting and Planning Techniques -- Writing Time: Drafting and Revising -- Publishing -- Teaching about Sentences -- The Development of Sentence Skills -- How Error Analysis Can Contribute to Teaching Sentence Skills -- Techniques for Helping Students Improve Sentences -- Where Does Grammar Fit In? -- Sentence Combining and Generative Rhetoric -- Assorted Exercises in Sentence Composing -- Teaching Style -- Sentence Instruction: Nonstandard Dialect and ESL Students -- The Computer and Sentence Instruction -- Evaluating and Responding to Student Writing -- Too Much Evaluation, Too Much Grading -- What Is the Value of Not Grading? -- Evaluation and Response: How Do They Differ? -- Conferencing -- Portfolios -- Designing Writing Assignments -- How Much Structure? How Much Freedom? -- Assignment Terminology: What Is the Difference between Explain and Discuss? -- Choosing the Assignment: What Should Students Write About? -- Sequencing Assignments: How Do We Increase Assignment Difficulty?