This article was originally published in "English in Australia," number 5, 1967. The text is Professor A. D. Hope's presidential address to the Australian Association for the Teaching of English from April, 1967. It manifests his concern for the state of English teaching in Australia.

Garth Boomer had been a seminal influence on this author's practice and thinking as a young English teacher in the 1980s. When asked to present the Garth Boomer Memorial address in 2009, the author realised that he would be speaking on his fiftieth birthday, thus the desire to take the opportunity to reflect on his teaching life was overwhelming.…

The current version of the draft National Curriculum (1.0.1) remains a document which dis-integrates the subject through its three strands and fails to conceptualise a relationship between these strands. Drawing on curriculum history, I argue that this stands in strong contrast to a curriculum such as the 1971 NSW Syllabus for Years 7-10, which…

Supplemental Instruction (SI) has widely been used in university classrooms around the world. However, many obstacles face SI -- including low student attendance, lack of faculty support, and recognition of today's online generation. This research helps to fill the gap in SI by posing to solve the problems mentioned above by extending SI into the…

Discusses the state of humanities instruction in community colleges and offers suggestions for ways to bolster that curriculum form. (FL)

Relates the propaganda techniques identified by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis to Hugh Rank's Intensification/Downplay doublespeak model. (MKM)

Discusses the effects of the computer and telecommunications revolution on the humanities and compares the modes of conception and analysis that are inherent in the computer and in the humanities. (AEA)

Muses on such topics as the importance of teaching students about the craft of poetry and of helping them see that life can turn into literature. (GT)

Views technical writing as a discipline requiring skills basic to communication, with some distinctive elements, including that it is written by assignment and often to specification, is highly situational, is an analytic problem-solving process, and is a "real world" art. (TJ)

Offers an "inspirational speech" delivered by Harvard professor Cornel West at the 1994 National Council of Teachers of English convention. Discusses ways in which English teachers can help to keep alive the tradition of struggle for decency, dignity, freedom, and democracy. Shares his belief in the significant role English teachers play in…

Reviews the current concern about writing and concludes that it is merely a symptom of problems in the culture as a whole. (AA)

Discusses the transition from teaching in a college to working in business. Points out similarities and differences between the work of academe and the business world. (EL)

Discusses teaching a college class in English Renaissance nondramatic literature. (AEA)

Notes that style is important in technical writing and is affected by content, audience, and the writer's purpose. (TJ)

Suggests that, while there are some good qualities among today's technical communicators, there are many weaknesses. Suggests some ways to eliminate such weaknesses. (TJ)