Much of the computer software currently available for English teachers fails to assess adequately computer strengths and weaknesses. Labeled "wimpy software," these products are often little more than animated textbooks whose lesson formats exercise little higher-order reasoning. The future for good quality software, therefore, rests with English teachers themselves. By using existing authoring systems and word processor programs, English teachers can create their own lessons. Apple's Super Pilot, for example, presents a respectable menu of options for presenting interactive lessons, for tallying results, and for augmenting these lessons with graphics in a range of colors. With this disk package, teachers can create lessons in grammar and usage, reading comprehension, simple composition skills, or even literary backgrounding. Word processing programs such as the Bank Street Writer make it easy to compose lessons in free writing story completions, creating suitable writing styles, word substitutions, definitions, and sentence expansions and combinings. Another potential area of computer use may be seen in composition tutorial programs that use artificial intelligence techniques to develop worthwhile interactivity between writer and computer. With these three aids English teachers can learn to create their own floppy-disk factory. (HOD)