The Note Card Review helps first-year college writers examine critically their own writing and that of their peers.

By rewriting a sales letter about a short story into a literary analysis, first-year composition students not only learn rhetorical principles that are sometimes lost in a literature-based composition course but also discover the metagenres linking disciplines.

Technical writing, linked to a business, helps nonscience majors understand the demands of the professional writing world.

This article describes three approaches with which grammar may be welcomed back into the composition classroom.

Notes that student writers gain greater insight into the importance of audience by analyzing business documents. Discusses how business writing teachers can help students understand the rhetorical refinements of writing to an audience. Presents an assignment designed to lead writers systematically through an analysis of two advertisements.