The major flaw in students' writing, inappropriate and inaccurate repetition, is also the major flaw of the mass media. (DD)

Analyzes sentences by remedial college students which contain typical errors. (DD)

Argues that Hypertext (which exists and can only exist online) is very different from more traditional forms of text and represents a new medium for thought and expression. Discusses the new practice and new rhetoric of Hypertext. (RS)

Tells two stories concerning the perversity of plagiarism. Discusses how one student's plagiarism was uncovered. Discusses how another student suspected of plagiarizing a personal account of anorexia denied the paper was about herself rather than admit that she was indeed anorexic. Notes that the student's journal entries indicate that she did not…

Defends expressivism as a philosophy of composition against attack. Argues on historical grounds that it was the social reform dimension of German romanticism that inspired expressivism. Presents one of the author's classes as one that is committed both to the mastery of philosophic method and to the development of student voices. (RS)

Focuses on women who practiced and wrote about medicine in nineteenth-century United States. Argues that the writing of women scientists complicates present understanding of the relations of gender, science, and writing as it presents in the discourse of medicine a variety of gendered positions rather than a univocal performance of patriarchal…

Questions the rhetoric of reproof and asserts the authors' belief that the practice of scholarly critique is generally salutary. Hopes to stand as a testimony to the firm belief in the importance of critique in the ongoing scholarly conversation. Considers ethical problems with (and use of) the rhetoric of reproof, and ethical awareness and the…

Hopes to promote recognition of the importance of the intersections between discourse, place, and environment through theoretical examinations and pedagogical approaches. Offers some preliminary working definitions for ecocomposition and examines the evolution of ecocomposition; distinguishes between ecocomposition and ecocriticism; and offers…

The history and philosophy of cultural studies is summarized explaining that cultural studies approaches to composition are concerned with delivering popular culture as subject matter into writing instruction, and that they do so by imagining a wide range of social phenomena. Paradoxically, in the professional literature on pedagogy within…

A story is presented which is based on two intersecting sites of textual production in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The story is the beginning of what can be said about the alliance and adaptation tactics used by Susan La Flesche Picotte.

In higher education, issues of "in loco parentis" have been most often discussed in connection with campus administrative policies. College writing teachers need to reflect, however, on the ways they conceivably exercise parental authority in their own classrooms, through such models as the Stern Father and the Nurturing Mother. (Contains 26…

Common grading practices are parodied. (JH)

The rhetorical strategies used to justify "new" readings by thematic critics reveal the essentially trivial nature of the thematic approach.

Describes the training program for new tutors which is employed by the Student Learning Center at the University of California at Berkeley. (DD)

Discusses the conflict between the intentional fallacy in reading (it is inappropriate to deduce literary intention from effects) and the intentional imperative in writing (intention is necessary to our understanding while writing). (DD)