Four articles deal with approaches to style, the usefulness of contemporary literature, the danger of dogmas, and the place of technical writing in composition courses. Louis T. Milic discusses three "real theories of style"--classical rhetorical dualism, psychological monism, and Crocean aesthetic monism--and the effect of the theories on the teaching of composition. Thomas W. Wilcox, who takes up the difficulty of teaching structural form in composition when both teacher and students are confronted with the open-ended or deliberately ambiguous structures of successful contemporary literature, indicates that teachers may have to modify their concepts of composition if they incorporate "fresh examples of verbal art" in their courses. A. M. Tibbetts presents "a short history of dogma and nonsense in the composition course." Specific dogmas discussed are semantics, communication skills, linguistics, and composition research. W. Earl Britton discusses four definitions of technical writing and differentiates between "imaginative" and "functional" writing through an emphasis on technical writing's "effort to limit the reader to one interpretation." (LH)