Asserts that professional writing belongs on equal footing with other courses in the college English curriculum. Proposes reforms for the integration of professional writing into the English curriculum. Focuses on particular issues that must be confronted and gives practical steps to take in achieving such reforms. (HB)

Analyzes the nature of the complexity of student writers of narrative in secondary schools. Focuses on the affective development and the narrative structure of student writing. Provides a framework based on structuralist theory resulting in a detailed insight into the achievements of student writers of narrative. (HB)

Provides the responses of five practicing English teachers to the question, "What has been the most significant impact of computer technology on your teaching?" (HB)

Gives responses of four practicing teachers to the question, "What book is best for presenting a realistic picture of contemporary life in rural America?" Provides citations, summaries, and overviews of the works. (HB)

Reviews and critiques three current software products which function as encyclopedias for the computer. Provides publication information and detailed analysis of the programs. (HB)

Argues that medieval popular literacy can provide a crucial link for understanding alternative literacies. Claims that medieval practices explain some contemporary literacy practices, especially those outside the academy. (HB)

Describes the activities in a student-centered advanced-placement English classroom, specifically methods used to foster discussion. Shows how student journals aid in generating discussion of literary works. Provides numerous concrete methods for fostering discussion. (HB)

Gives responses of six practicing teachers to the question, "Who is your favorite writer of science fiction or fantasy?" Provides citations, plot summaries, and/or thematic overviews of some of the authors' works. (HB)

Sketches a scenario describing the possible future of English studies in the United States. Discusses the sources of division and anger within the profession. Considers the obstacles that impede healthy professional conversations within departments. (HB)

Identifies the ideas of the good that organize the professional lives of English college faculty. Discusses how these ideas should help faculty to constitute their departments, colleagues, and students. Applies insights from Aristotle's "Rhetoric" to departmental discussions. (HB)

Considers how students are represented in institutional discourse and how students are viewed by their teachers. Outlines historical and current examples of the way students are represented. Calls for a closer examination of the relationship between rhetorical representations of students and reality. (HB)

Discusses the author's approach to writing nonfiction for adolescents and her experiences with reactions of young readers. Explains the value of real stories being told and read by adolescents. Supports the incorporation of nonfiction into the classroom. (SC)

Discusses a course in children's literature offered through distance education in a community college. Describes topics to be addressed, including a brief history of children's literature, didactic stories and romantic stories, child development and folklore, illustration, and the political questions of our time; and sex roles, multicultural…

Provides support for using computer games in the English curriculum, as texts of the new technologies, to strengthen links between students' in-school and out-of-school worlds. Claims that far from presenting a threat to accepted literacy practices, the games help students gain an awareness of how texts work and become more reflexive about the…

Brings historical evidence to bear to evaluate different articulations of citizenship and corresponding forms of education. Claims both critical citizenship is a core value and the centrality of civic education. Maps the history of various definitions of citizenship. Examines the linkage between educational theory and curricular development, the…