Writing

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#	Title	Date	Summary
101	For all levels of ability; reading improvement services Northern Iowan 69:3, p.9	09/22/1972	Detailed description of reading improvement services.
102	English Club sponsors writing workshop Saturday Northern Iowan 67:47, p.4	04/23/1971	Conference will be for junior and senior students and faculty.
103	Writing winners told Northern Iowan 67:11, p.4	10/23/1970	List of winners in Hearst writing contest.
104	Seniors to write composition test Thursday Northern Iowan 64:48, p.8	04/16/1968
105	UNI drops English writing test requirement Northern Iowan 64:30, p.1	02/06/1968	No longer required for students transferring English credit to UNI.
106	Protests transfer tests College Eye 63:56, p.4	05/19/1967	Feels the writing test given to transfer students is archaic.
107	Results for English tests are available College Eye 63:55, p.8	05/16/1967
108	'Cherishers of English language' appalled by Wollner's letter College Eye 63:52, p.2	05/05/1967	Disturbed by the ignorance of a previous letter.
109	Hours set for senior writing tests College Eye 63:44, p.12	04/07/1967	Must take composition test.
110	Poet to visit SCI College Eye 63:31, p.3	02/10/1967	Encourages the active participation in poetry by all people.
111	Writing service referment procedures attacked by friend of SCI student College Eye 60:65, p.2	08/12/1966	Disagrees with the current referment procedures.
112	Writing service--a desirable aid to students College Eye 60:62, p.2	07/15/1966	Encourages students to seek out help with their writing.
113	Dates set for composition product testing College Eye 60:53, p.4	05/06/1966	Measuring effects of composition classes.
114	English research grant Alumnus 51:1, p.8	02/01/1966	$60,000 grant will support research on freshman composition.
115	Senior Forum: Teaching of grammar should be optional College Eye 60:24, p.2	12/07/1965	Gives reasons why he does not believe that grammar courses should be required.
116	Grant to be given over period of four years College Eye 60:23, p.1	12/03/1965	$60,018 grant will attempt to measure effectiveness of college composition classes.
117	New publication for freshman English themes College Eye 60:10, p.8	10/15/1965	Will provide showcase for freshman writing.
118	34 graders evaluate freshman compositions College Eye 59:48, p.3	07/09/1965	Attempting to determine whether or not writing courses really do teach students to write better.
119	Untitled College Eye 59:48, p.2	07/09/1965	Student's hand aching from writing term papers.
120	Seven honored at evening of creative writing College Eye 59:41, p.1	05/14/1965	UPC sponsors competition; list of winners.
121	Writers need practice, must know grammar, rhetoric College Eye 59:33, p.2	04/16/1965	Composition courses are ineffective; must be re-vamped.
122	Function of extra theme assignments: lessen inhibition College Eye 59:31, p.2	04/09/1965	Students could be more comfortable with their English/communication skills if they were required to write more papers.
123	Nelson adds to current theme grading question College Eye 59:31, p.2	04/09/1965	Qualified students could read extra papers; papers could replace question-and-answer time during lectures.
124	'Little themes' give English I practice College Eye 59:29, p.2	03/23/1965	Disagrees with Fox's suggestion in previous article to assign more ungraded themes.
125	Fox maintains students need more theme writing College Eye 59:28, p.2	03/19/1965	Current practice of ten 400-word themes is not enough to develop students' writing skills.
126	English tests to be given next Monday College Eye 59:15, p.5	01/08/1965	Will measure effectiveness of composition classes.
127	College composition--is it necessary? Alumnus 49:4, p.7	12/01/1964	Project underway to answer this question.
128	Wants return to strong, intense writing College Eye 58:35, p.2	07/17/1964
129	Taylor sees cliché as hindrance to creative writing College Eye 58:30, p.2	05/22/1964	Loren Taylor talks about writing.
130	New program offers writing aid to students College Eye 58:9, p.3	11/15/1963	Ross Jewell talks about new Writing Improvement Service.
131	Project English object: do English I & II really help? College Eye 58:9, p.1	11/15/1963	Study will look at effectiveness of composition classes.
132	Many student writing problems result of ineffective grammar instruction College Eye 57:38, p.3	07/26/1963	Excerpts from speech by Andrew MacLeish.
133	Creative writing contest opens for students College Eye 57:19, p.1	02/22/1963	Commons will sponsor contest; James Hearst and Loren Taylor will judge entries.
134	Can college students write? College Eye 56:34, p.2	06/22/1962	Editors believe that SCI writing standards are lax.
135	'Correctness in writing' ploy is futile College Eye 56:32, p.2	05/25/1962	Professor Fox expresses weariness from arguing with students over grades.
136	Inattention to spelling a baffling problem College Eye 56:29, p.2	05/04/1962	Professor Fox asks why "bourgeoisie" was so often misspelled in a recent examination.
137	Contest needs student backing . . . College Eye 51:10, p.8	11/20/1959	Discusses an editorial-writing contest through the University of Havana, Cuba.
138	Special English to be offered at Price School College Eye 50:28, p.3	04/24/1959	Class will be offered to fifty high school students.
139	Notice College Eye 50:3, p.1	09/26/1958	New students must take composition examination.
140	Catsnip 'T' College Eye 50:1, p.2	09/12/1958	Laments the difficulties of writing a column.
141	Students must communicate College Eye 49:17, p.1	01/31/1958	Faculty now have option to refer students whom they perceive to have difficulty with writing, speech, or reading.
142	A sloppily written letter instigates new TC provision College Eye 48:31, p.6	05/29/1957	Students must show a competence in reading, writing, and speaking in order to graduate.
143	Quality of writing improves while under writing clinic College Eye 48:18, p.7	02/15/1957	Ross Jewell talks about helping students to improve their writing; photo.
144	Musings; fate's inevitable blow descends; the writer's all out of ideas College Eye 47:27, p.2	04/20/1956	Discusses the frustrations of writer's block.
145	J. W. Maucker discusses the problems facing administrators in an article, "A Migraine Headache for School Administrators" Public Relations News Release 1952:518, p.1	03/13/1952	Pressures on schools to teach more "things" to more children in the face of inflation and increased competition for the tax dollar spell a headache for school acministrators, according to Maucker's article in Midland Schools.
146	Columnist confesses long concealed ambition College Eye 43:15, p.2	01/25/1952	Discusses failed attempts to get the 'book rights' of several popular movies.
147	Jewel conducts new writing clinics College Eye 43:13, p.5	01/11/1952	For those who need help with their writing skills.
148	College president see "overwhelming" job ahead Public Relations News Release 1950:248, p.1	03/02/1951	"They (the schools) are being required to teach more youngsters more things" in the face of spiraling costs and a zooming birthrate, he said. (about 3.7 million babies were born in this country in 1947 compared with 1940's two million.)
149	Writing contests announced by Mademoiselle, CBS-Video College Eye 41:21, p.8	03/10/1950
150	Creative writing club is planned College Eye 40:22, p.3	03/18/1949	Professor Maurer is sponsoring organizational meeting.
151	Valparaiso will hold play contest College Eye 40:20, p.3	02/18/1949
152	English student states protests of theme writing in classroom College Eye 38:15, p.2	01/10/1947	Believes crowded conditions and poor desks do not usually lead to a good essay.
153	Winter pen greeted enthusiastically; spring deadline, March 31 College Eye 35:20, p.6	02/11/1944
154	Suckow, Hearst join teaching staff; pair will assist in teaching course of creative writing College Eye 34:9, p.1	11/06/1942	Professor Reninger explains the new way that the course will be taught.
155	Jones, Van Duyn, Stoner win one-act play writing contest College Eye 33:16, p.1	01/16/1942	Now beginning plans for production.
156	Notice College Eye 33:7, p.1	10/24/1941	New plan to improve writing performance of low-performing students.
157	Leopard spots like collegiate notebook? College Eye 31:35, p.2	06/14/1940	Comments on doodles found in many college notebooks.
158	Primaries told to use encouragement in teaching pupils College Eye 30:41, p.4	08/04/1939	Professor Terry gives advice on teaching writing.
159	Writers' studio for concentration College Eye 30:43, p.2	07/28/1939	Room 142 in the Auditorium Building is a quiet place to write.
160	Editorially speaking the College Eye presents campus views significant events 'English' o successor College Eye 30:39, p.2	07/14/1939	English course is now dreaded by TC students.
161	English zero gives way to laboratory College Eye 30:32, p.4	05/12/1939	Curriculum will change in English composition classes for students who need special help.
162	Writer tells troubles of 'Eye' staff College Eye 28:38, p.2	06/25/1937	Writer tells of difficulties in trying to write to the discordant sounds of music coming from Central Hall.
163	Writer's studio College Eye 28:37, p.3	06/18/1937	Furnished and equipped in Auditorium 143 for all interested in a good place to write.
164	Seventy-four rate high English scores College Eye 26:17, p.1	10/19/1934	Released from taking introductory English classes; 127 will need to take English 0.
165	College students take test to be released from class Public Relations News Release 1934:643, p.1	10/14/1934	Seventy-four students were released from English I.
166	Student works published Public Relations News Release 1932:418, p.1	04/19/1934	On National Poetry day, May 22, "I. S. T. C. Poetry" will be published, this book is a volume of verses by students of the college. This is the first of it's kind to be printed at the school and will be a limited edition of 500 copies.
167	Writers to compete for $100 award College Eye 25:22, p.1	11/24/1933	Two ISTC stories will be selected for national contest.
168	Box of candy is offered for idea College Eye 25:2, p.2	06/16/1933	Professor offers reward for a truly original essay.
169	The government and art College Eye 23:46, p.2	06/17/1932	Claims that writers in America are doing their work solely for money.
170	Literature class develops poets College Eye 23:34, p.2	03/18/1932	Professor Buckley's class has sonnet contest.
171	Are freshman men better in English than the co-eds? College Eye 23:13, p.1	09/18/1931	Professor Lynch finds men to be more independent and original in their writing; women are more accurate and careful.
172	One hundred thirty frosh take ciphers as zero hour ends College Eye 22:2, p.1	09/19/1930	130 fail initial test; must take writing course.
173	Freshmen to receive help in English College Eye 21:22, p.6	03/07/1930	Low-achieving freshmen will be required to take a preparatory English course.
174	The Pop-off College Eye 19:20, p.7	02/01/1928	Praises College Eye staff for quality of newspaper.
175	Wanted: novelists to be made College Eye 18:38, p.7	04/13/1927	Magazine seeks good writing.
176	President Seerley Alumni News Letter 6:4, p.1	10/01/1922	President Seerley and the Iowa Committee on Illiteracy establish a set of recommended policies on public literacy.
177	Fiction as a factor in civilization Normal Eyte 9:5, p.102	10/14/1899	Essay on influence of fiction.
178	The drill of writing for publication Normal Eyte 8:7, p.91	10/22/1898	Urges students to consider the value of writing an article for the Normal Eyte.
179	Evidently the Normal is advancing Normal Eyte 5:3, p.22	10/05/1895	Class of 1896 may choose their theses instead of having the faculty choose them.
180	The Rhetorical Divisions of the junior classes Normal Eyte 3:8, p.58	10/28/1893	Have been working on descriptive writing; example offered of a morning on a farm.
181	Written exercises Students' Offering 5:18, p.4	05/01/1881	The benefits of written work.