1.   As to complaints that the Nancy Drew series is trash or fluff, Karen Plunkett-Powell notes that she has used the books to teach writing to youngsters.

2.   A century ago, Samuel Johnson and other great essayists were used as models to teach theme writing in schools.

3.   Can writing be taught at all?

4.   Did writing the book teach you anything?

5.   I sometimes teach writing in high school, and then have a few thousand teen-agers to watch as well as my own.

6.   Johnson, who teaches writing at Harvard and Wellesley, has assembled a cunning homage here.

7.   The author, who has worked in a sandblasting plant, at a hazardous waste cleanup site and in a hospital morgue, teaches writing in Mobile.

8.   There is a chance that one of your favorite authors also teaches writing at the junior college, and that you will run into him at the gym.