When scholars write about their research in writing programs' archives, they often face the ethical question of whether to name the administrators who were involved in documents. The author identifies and provides examples of three basic orientations to this issue, which he calls overt-historical, covert-qualitative, and hybrid-institutional.…

Although, by the time of her death, Louise Rosenblatt was highly respected in the fields of composition and reading theory, she did not enjoy the same status among literary theorists. In this article, the author argues that Rosenblatt should be taken seriously as a literary theorist. The author shares her views on Rosenblatt's "Literature as…

Provides a set of criteria for acceptable use of the comma splice. (DD)

English teachers, members of the cult of fanatical seriousness in higher education, need to discover the fundamental comedy of life, as several recent writers have. (DD)

The author uses a discussion of Van Vechten's "Nigger Heaven" to argue that cross-racial voicing on the part of white writers may in fact express an attempt to acknowledge and perhaps explore the rhetorical efficacy of a black ethos. He also suggests that English studies scholars of all races need to create forums where cross-racial voicing can be…

A summary of the emphases of annual Counciletter" columns since 1965; appears also in Elementary English," vol. 48, no. 3 (March 1971), pp. 288-89, and in English Journal," vol. 60, no. 3 (March 1971), pp. 390-91. (RD)

Criticizes the unscholarly functions of scholarly publications by proposing to use World War II naval terminology to classify books, articles, or monographs. (MM)

The virtual pedagogical space that is a home to ten thousands of English courses in the United States and abroad and is referred to the software application called Blackboard is discussed. The ways in which Blackboard as a socially produced and producing space undermined many of the currently professed goal of English studies is illustrated.

Skill in intelligently analyzing any medium can be applied to any other medium. (JH)

Argues that the act of imitating prose models does not stifle students' personalities, it liberates them. (DD)

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

Contends that the genitive apostrophe is losing its grammatical significance and its utility and will eventually be dropped. (DD)

Explores found poems, straightforward prose passages that have an accidental lyrical or poetic quality to them. Describes found fragments that a reader may elaborate, extend, or rearrange into a found poem. (HTH)

Discusses New Criticism and the revolution it caused in college English teaching. (DD)