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)

As a synopsis of a lost opera, the article parodies the dilemma of including reading instruction in college English courses faced by the various elements of a college faculty. (TO)

Urges teachers to hold individual conferences with students in order to meet students' individual writing needs. (RB)

The author describes the classroom as being both frontier and wilderness and urges teachers to recognize that, as such, successes and failures will occur despite our curricular approach. (MM)

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)

A narrative account of a lesson on Frost's Dust of Snow"; part of a work-in-progress, The Fragment and Other Gross Errors." (Editor/RD)

Argues that assignments to write about literature can help teach rhetoric" only if administered with emphasis on the special rhetorical problems they pose." (Author/RD)

A humorous satire suggesting techniques for paragraph composition. (RD)