Advocates the use of plain, short words rather than longer, more complicated words. (NKA)

A defense of the study of the humanities in light of the back-to-basics movement. (DD)

A selective review of research on written composition and the teaching of writing. (DD)

Points out the importance of speech activities in the English curriculum. (JL)

Describes the five stages through which teachers pass in their professional lifetime (the "honeymoon," competence, power, maintenance, and conversion). (RL)

Outlines some procedures for the sensible selection of educational books, products, and other materials for the English classroom. (DD)

Describes the various responses to literary works that are possible; encourages wide reading. (DD)

Discusses five qualities that underlie the approaches used by effective writing teachers. (DD)

Presents a critical analysis of advertising appearing in this journal from September 1978 to May 1979. (DF)

A brief look at teaching students how to write letters and at using letters as instructional tools in the junior high and high school English classroom. (RL)

A tongue-in-cheek version of a school administrator's "memorandum" illustrates how simplistic solutions to the educational problems, such as establishing minimum competencies for writing achievement, are generated and why they may not solve the problems. (RL)

The first year of the author's job as a high school newspaper adviser was marked by her overenthusiastic acceptance of responsibilities, a plague of printing mistakes, and a search for ways to instill standards of accuracy in student reporters. (RL)

Describes the traits held by "elitist humanists" who attack the teaching of English today. (DD)