Carl Rogers' theory of argument is in accord with traditional Aristotelian theory since both are based on mutual trust and understanding. (DD)

Since expository writing is inherently creative and innovative, and since readers respond to it both morally and aesthetically, it deserves the respect of the English teaching profession. (DD)

Language emerges and changes primarily through communication; therefore communication technologies play a key role in the history of language change. With writing losing its earlier hegemony over communication, the question arises as to whether this will lead to the erosion of human language and thought. (Author/VWL)

Asserts that good writing matters, and that the College Board's decision to include a written essay on the SAT is a long overdue message for U.S. students. (EV)

Presents a farewell article to Dr. Pamela Sissi Carroll as editor of this journal. Gives a comical review of the field by covering the entire history of young adult literature, past, present, and future, describing the important people and organizations in the field, and explaining everything he has learned as a writer of young adult novels.…

Explains and anthropomorphizes each letter in the alphabet. Details the reasons why writers write. Notes that all writers live and struggle with this question. (PM)

Presents an interview with Lynne Tillman, a fiction writer, essayist, and educator. Discusses her first novel, "Haunted Houses" (1987). Considers how that novel inaugurated the themes and techniques that have come to distinguish her as a writer. (SG)

Notes that the notion of authors consulting their audiences is an old one. Discusses how Homer, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce reworked their writing to suit the taste of their audiences. (RS)

Discusses the relationship and value of semiotics to the established domains of information science. Highlights include documentation; computer operations; the language of computing; automata theory; linguistics; speech and writing; and the written language as a unifying principle for the document and the computer. (93 references) (LRW)

Explores the relationship between life histories, identities, and the act of writing through two students' experiences with academic writing. Diagrams how a writer's experiences shape opinions, voice, and self-concept, which are brought to bear on the act of writing. (SK)

Criticizes content-area teachers for not knowing what they are talking about when they criticize English teachers. Suggests that students be given the same opportunity to understand the self-evident truths of written sentences as was given to teachers--by doing lots of writing. (RS)

Argues that composition teachers should assign essay topics on writing because, by writing about writing, students can synthesize and master the material covered in class. (SR)

Presents seven short position papers and four responses (first aired at a conference entitled "A Critique of the Things That Go without Saying in Composition Studies"), which identify and critique unstated assumptions in composition studies that are so widely accepted they are, in effect, invisible. (SR)

Discusses writing of United States Navy personnel to support the wide usefulness of the rhetorical concept of ethos. Shows how the concept is applied within a variety of naval contexts, from naval personnel evaluations to ship-repair reports. Discusses the Tailhook episode to show how lack of understanding of ethos can have adverse effects on the…

Explains how a teacher came to have his own computer lab. Recommends a five-step procedure for other teachers who would like to have a computer lab in their classroom: (1) be an opportunist; (2) take pictures; (3) publish students' work; (4) use the computers well; and (5) ask for computers. Includes brief descriptions of related hardware and…