The author argues that the new journal "Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric" offers access to student writing outside of the pedagogical apparatus that has historically accompanied the publication of such writing, and in the process challenges composition's standard practice of citing students by first name…

A symposium in the November 2006 issue of "College English" addresses the question, "What should college English be?" In this article, the author presents his answer to this question--it should be a functional approach to English studies. By English studies he means everything that is done in English departments. Most English departments teach…

The suggestions for writing for publication given in this paper include writing with honesty, thinking clearly, considering the potential audience, sharing the article with friends, revising the article, and sending the article to the appropriate journal. Empathy for the difficulty of writing is given and illustrated with examples from Eric…

Sings praises of the manual typewriter and the old world craftsmanship of writing as a natural expression that can be done "miles from the nearest socket." (JK)

Points out parallels between running and writing. (JL)

Fifteen writing instructors report their favorite ways of getting students to write. (RL)

Discusses who needs to know grammar, how much and what kind teachers need to know, how much students need to know, and what grammar is good for. (DD)

Proposes three criteria (transcendency, flexible direction, and generative capacity) by which to judge the adequacy of heuristic models for composition. (DD)

Reviews Linda Brodkey's prominent critique of the image of the solitary writer, and uses it as a means to examine the identity and behavior of the writer in nature. Uses various nature writers as exhibits, and speculates as to why Wendell Berry makes a distinction between "writer" and "creature." (TB)

Looks at the relationship between creativity and spirituality in the field of writing in general and in scientific writing in particular. (Author/SOE)

Explores the nature of empirical inquiry in rhetoric; defines the uses of inductive inferencing in empirical inquiry; describes patterns of invention in empirical theory building; and investigates pluralism in empirical scholarship. Asserts that empirical scholars need to articulate and be more reflexive about the rhetoric of their inquiry. (RAE)

Argues against the relativist arguments of Jasper Neel and Herrnstein Smith which assert that truth and writing are incompatible. Offers an introduction to their major arguments, and critiques the positions they share. Reveals that their vision of writing and truth is bolstered by three questionable premises about the nature of truth in human…

Discusses an epistemic return which the author detects in contemporary rhetoric studies. Suggests that its dominant concern, as for Isocrates, is to reconfigure the relationship between individual and community within an epistemic environment that encourages the individual's participation in the social construction of the knowledge while granting…

Discusses the educational theories and philosophical ideas of Lev Vygotsky and John Dewey. Asserts that both were affected by Hegelian philosophy in that both attacked atomistic reductions and abstract dualisms and dichotomies of many sorts in their attempt to view education and communication in terms of history and culture. (PRA)

Remarks on moments in Louise Wetherbee Phelps' book "Composition as a Human Science" where the absence of power presents a problematic for composition. Presents Jurgen Habermas for and against Phelps, noting the gestures of both authors against scientism while drawing on several of Habermas' basic concepts. Proposes rereading Aristotle's…