Intended to chart the interconnections of linguistics, stylistics, and the teaching of composition, this book encourages a productive collective effort to cultivate linguistics among teachers of writing. Chapter titles and their authors are as follows: (1) "Grammar in American College Composition: An Historical Overview" (R. J. Connors); (2) "Teaching Style" (E. P. J. Corbett); (3) "Brain, Rhetoric, and Style" (W. R. Winterowd); (4) "Released into Language: Errors, Expectations, and the Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy" (D. Bartholomae); (5) "Knowledge, Acknowledgement, and Writing across the Curriculum: Toward an Educated Community" (E. P. Maimon); (6) "Getting Started" (K. Bruffee); (7) "Topic and Form in Composition" (F. J. D'Angelo); (8) "The Problem of Topic in Texts" (L. Faigley); (9) "The Effects of Intensive Sentence Combining on the Writing Ability of College Freshmen" (A. Kerek, D. A. Daiker, and M. Morenberg); (10) "Syntactic Complexity and Writing Quality" (S. P. Witte, J. A. Daly, and R. D. Cherry); (11) "Linguistics and Error Analysis: On Agency" (D. C. Freeman); (12) "Non-Linguistic Linguistics and the Teaching of Style" (J. M. Williams); (13) "Composition via Stylistics" (L. T. Milic); (14) "Style through Control: The Pleasures of the Beginning Writer" (S. Schor); (15) "Language Studies and Composing Processes" (R. L. Larson); (16) "Abstraction as a Speculative Instrument" (A. E. Berthoff); (17) "States of Mind, Acts of Mind, Forms of Discourse: Toward a Provisional Pragmatic Framework" (G. Summerfield and J. F. Summerfield); (18) "The Process of Creative Discovery: Theory, Research, and Implications for Teaching" (S. Perl and A. Egendorf); (19) "Alternatives to Mad-Hatterism" (E. W. Nold); (20) "Composition in the Mimetic Mode: 'Imitatio' and 'Exercitatio'" (D. G. Kehl); (21) "The Relation of the Whole to the Part in Interpretation Theory and in the Composing Process" (J. L. Kinneavy); (22) "Theme in Fictional Literature: A Way into Complexity" (R. Young); (23) "Return of Eloquence: Richard Lanham and the Teaching of Writing" (R. DiYanni); (24) "Toward Real Philosophic Laboratories: Ann Berthoff on Writing Theory and Practice" (J. Clifford); and (25) "Writing across the Curriculum: A Bibliographic Essay" (P. Bizzell and B. Herzberg). Notes and biographic material on the contributors conclude the document. (SKC)