The best literature dealing with the Holocaust assumes the worthwhileness and preciousness of human life. (JH)

Contends that communications textbooks uncritically accept and teach conformity, political passivity, and acceptance of the status quo. (JH)

Successful fantasies may either force us to look freshly at everyday things or expand our capacity to believe.

Creative writing assignments are described which prepare students better to apprehend and appreciate Shakespeare's art.

Claims that, in certain situations, writer-based prose can be better than reader-based prose, then offers practical guidelines about audience. (FL)

Discusses the problem of trying to unite the fields of composition and literature into an overall program of English studies, and how the connection might be achieved. (SRT)

Offers a list of English poetry set to music. Includes only recordings that are currently available and poetry that is commonly taught or that can be taught better because of the existence of the music. (EL)

Suggests strongly that teachers of English should help students become more skillful at analyzing the messages on war they receive, so they can confront the nuclear predicament and begin developing alternatives. (CRH)

Presents four principles to use in creating inconspicuous sex-fair language: (1) be consistent, (2) use words not marked for gender, (3) make the surface structure match the deep structure, and (4) use dual epronouns only when they contribute to clearer understanding. (MM)

An experiment described more fully in The Effectiveness of Non-Directive Teaching as a Method of Improving the Writing Ability of College Freshmen," the author's unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, School of Education, 969. (Editor/SW)

Presents a list of topics, reading assignments, and an outline for a survey course on reading and literacy. (RL)

Discusses "symbologizing schemata," the advanced processes by which readers comprehend narratives and the symbols embedded in literary works. Notes how teachers can apply knowledge of symbologizing schemata to instruction in literature classes. (RL)

Examines the nature of the pedagogical relationship between professor and graduate student in college English programs. Compares today's institutional realities of the teacher student relationship with that depicted by Plato in his work the "Protagoras." (HB)

Focuses on the simplistic binary oppositions and their ensuing rhetorical stances in student writing. Discusses the example of the supposed antagonism between "blacks and browns" in the Los Angeles inner city. Critiques the "white ground" of Western binary oppositions and shows how such a critique relates to the writing…