Teaching of writing, teaching of creative writing, teaching of composition and expository writing, teaching of professional writing, voice, relationship of thinking and writing (seeing-in-the-mind and writing), speech and writing (connections, contrasts, differences), word and image, mental imagery and language, orality and literacy, interplay of orality and literacy, dialect and writing, dialect and standard English, process of writing, use of games and classroom exercises and dramatic approaches in the teaching of writing, innovative approaches to the teaching of writing, showing and telling, show don't tell and seeing and voice, Story Workshop drawing and painting exercises, innovative approaches to development of imagination and problem-solving abilities, use of videotape for classroom teaching, professional writing, how-to and technical writing, creative problem-solving, exercises and dramatic approaches in the teaching of composition, grammar, and punctuation.