Written from a variety of perspectives, the 13 articles in this journal issue focus on the use of the computer in teaching English. Specific topics discussed in the articles are as follows: the era of the microcomputer, by R. Baird Shuman; pedagogical issues involving computers, by Duane Roen and Margaret Fleming; computer rhetoric at the University of Illinois, by Frank Hodgins; the writing outreach workshop planned for the summer of 1986, by Dennis Baron; using collaborative writing as a successful strategy for computer-assisted instruction, by Gail E. Hawisher and Gary D. Schmidt; composition, revision, and word processing, by Nadene Keene; a community college program involving composition by word processing, by Rick Dollieslager; the computer and seventh graders (an anecdotal report), by Katherine Wells Knighten; the Apple Writer as a word processing program for student publications, by Daniel R. Russo; learning to love word processing, by Donna-Marie Stupple; plunging into word processing (a teacher's experience) by Carolyn Boiarsky; managing with only one computer in a classroom, by Phyllis Mabry; and a sample proposal to a school board requesting funds for microcomputers, by Marti Swanson. (EL)