Approaches to the teaching of composition / The psychology of thinking / Mapping and composing / Understanding children's art / Drawing as prewriting in preschool / Pre-writing : the stage of discovery in the writing process / From speech to writing / Stimulating and receiving children's writing : implications for an elementary writing curriculum / Talk-write : a behavioral pedagogy for composition / Using talk-write in the classroom / An approach to function categories / Composition course : pursuit of ideas / Rationale for a new curriculum in English / Using student writing response groups in the classroom / The All-City High project / A generative rhetoric of the sentence / Sentence modeling / Hearing voices : tough talk, sweet talk, stuffy talk / Mimesis : grammar and the echoing voice / Writing in reason / Showing, not telling / The relationship between the teacher and the researcher