Describes 58 works dealing with the testing of writing ability and provides the text of the Conference on College Composition and Communication's 1978 resolution on testing. (DD)

Describes fundamental qualities applicable to all kinds of libraries and recommends a step-by-step process leading to successful realization of policy planning. Implications for collection development personnel and for the library as an organization when a working policy is developed are also emphasized. (Author)

Carl Rogers' theory of argument is in accord with traditional Aristotelian theory since both are based on mutual trust and understanding. (DD)

Since expository writing is inherently creative and innovative, and since readers respond to it both morally and aesthetically, it deserves the respect of the English teaching profession. (DD)

Describes how the use of primary trait scoring by composition teachers can improve students' rhetorical fluency and awareness. (DD)

Students can be good writers and good people at the same time; they needn't view writing solely as a means of making money. (DD)

Suggests ten guidelines to follow to ensure the success of writing programs. (KS)

Offers ideas for making an editorial page interesting and relevant. (HOD)

Outlines the problems which most novice writers confront and suggests ways to overcome inertia, organize content, and produce. (KS)

Discusses the publication of "Guidelines for the Ethical Treatment of Students and Student Writing in Composition Studies" in the journal "College Composition and Communication." Notes that the Guidelines were developed as a reaction to the present situation wherein (1) student writing increasingly is the subject of English teachers' publications…

Language emerges and changes primarily through communication; therefore communication technologies play a key role in the history of language change. With writing losing its earlier hegemony over communication, the question arises as to whether this will lead to the erosion of human language and thought. (Author/VWL)

Asserts that good writing matters, and that the College Board's decision to include a written essay on the SAT is a long overdue message for U.S. students. (EV)

Presents a farewell article to Dr. Pamela Sissi Carroll as editor of this journal. Gives a comical review of the field by covering the entire history of young adult literature, past, present, and future, describing the important people and organizations in the field, and explaining everything he has learned as a writer of young adult novels.…

Explains and anthropomorphizes each letter in the alphabet. Details the reasons why writers write. Notes that all writers live and struggle with this question. (PM)

Presents an interview with Lynne Tillman, a fiction writer, essayist, and educator. Discusses her first novel, "Haunted Houses" (1987). Considers how that novel inaugurated the themes and techniques that have come to distinguish her as a writer. (SG)