The business and technical writing teachers at Iowa State University conducted a public relations campaign within their English department to gain respectability, understanding, and acceptance from their English department colleagues. Their campaign included examples of student work, lists of their course objectives, and explanations of business…

Contains recommendations for teaching English to adult education students in higher education. Argues that the advent of increased numbers of adult learners demands a readjustment of attitudes and strategies in teaching English, including a recognition of the pragmatic, consumer-oriented, and highly motivated nature of adult students. (DF)

Offers suggestions for use in establishing undergraduate career guidance programs in English departments. (AEA)

Offers advice to English department administrators on how to respond to lawsuits both from within and outside the department. (AEA)

Explores and puts to rest the misconceptions that faculty members from English as well as other disciplines hold about teaching writing. Makes suggestions that may help English teachers who want to establish an institution-wide program of writing gain the cooperation of other departments. (HTH)

Lists guidelines to help department administrators reduce their liability and strengthen their position when faced with grievances or lawsuits. (AEA)

This book, the final work of a noted rhetorician and scholar, examines the history and development of English studies, and the economic and social changes that affect the understanding of the humanities today. Noting that while rhetoric once held a central place in the college curriculum, the book describes how rhetoric became marginalized in…

These four issues of the CSSEDC Quarterly (Conference for Secondary School English Department Chairpersons) represent the quarterly for 1990. Articles in number 1 deal with student teachers and include: "Student Teaching: Smoothing Out the Rough Spots" (Susan B. Argyle and Fred C. Feitler); "A Partnership for Urban Student…

When a large group of nontenured part-time English department faculty were summarily dismissed, a significant segment of the English curriculum was left largely unattended, and other problems arose throughout the institution. (MSE)

Reports on the program for the inservice training of secondary school English teachers, conducted at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; and offers it as a model for similar efforts by college English departments. (RL)