Demonstrates how to develop an examination on which each student contracts for his or her grade on each question. (DD)

Suggests an approach to the study of literature which aims at appreciation and rejects the notion that works have hidden meanings. (DD)

The author satirically questions the right of modern poets and modern poetry to the pedestal they are often afforded. (MM)

In the reaction against biographical and historical criticism, critics have dogmatically emphasized pure textual explication and have thus distorted or restricted responses to literature and art. To correct this improper emphasis, teachers, in addition to stressing the integrity of the art work, should treat individual creations as "different…

Students responded well to the opportunity to create their own final examinations. (JH)

A weekly letter to the class gives each student in a literature class a chance to uncover their relationship to what they are reading. (DD)

The author discusses the validity of various approaches to, and interpretations of, a literary work. (MM)

Examines how training in literature improves the vocational skills of English majors and discusses how teaching and counseling may improve these skills. (DD)

Defines "literature" as including such expository works as "The Theory of the Leisure Class" and "The Lonely Crowd" and encourages development of college courses in expository modes of writing. (DD)

Comments on three of the topics of the Dartmouth Conference on the Teaching of English: A definition of English as a classroom subject, the place of literature in the curriculum, and the training of English teachers. (TO)

The only way English teachers and their students can have an appreciation for literature by black writers is to have appreciation for the writers themselves and for the world, past and present, they occupy. (MM)