Noting that while collaborative writing is commonplace in the "real" world it is seldom practiced in classrooms, the articles in this focused journal explore the place of collaboration in the writing process and the ways in which collaboration can be fostered in an instructional setting. Following an introduction by the editor, which describes briefly five models of collaboration, the articles are divided into categories for practice and theory, dialogue between teachers, teachers working with students, students writing together, and writers and their audiences. The titles and their authors are as follows: (1) "Clues about the Writing Process" (Karl Taylor); (2) "Rhetorical Theories of Composition in the Classroom" (Laura Paxton); (3) "From a Nineteenth Century Rhetorician: A Multidimensional Plan for Invention" (Katherine H. Adams); (4) "The Need for a Grammatical Vocabulary" (Susan Hye); (5) "How Much Grammar for Remedial Students? Some Basic Criteria to Help Teachers Decide" (Ronald A. Santora); (6) "Five Easy Paragraphs" (Susan Lang-McMonagle); (7) "A Recipe for Instant Mashed Potatoes" (Lee Sall); (8) "Analogical Writing and Teacher/Student Invention" (Robert C. Weiss); (9) "Teaching the Research Paper to Thwart Plagiarism" (Bruce W. Speck); (10) "Declaring Writing Independence" (Jim Christ); (11) "Confessions of a First Quarter Tutor" (Kenneth C. Wilk); (12) "Redeeming Revision" (Lee Ann Leeson); (13) "The Personal Feature: A Peerless Peer Assignment" (Terry O. Phelps); (14) "Group Essays: The Time Is Now" (Suzanna Colby); (15) "From Darkness into Light: A Group Process Approach to the Research Paper" (Glenn Spiegelhalder); (16) "Creative Revision through Collaborative Re-vision" (Frank C. Cronin); (17) "A Case for Comprehensible Composition: Teaching the Essay in 1113" (George B. Wittmer); (18) "Semi-Collaboration: Toward a Public 'Showcase' of Student Writing" (James P. Beck); (19) "The Eleven Functions of Revision" (Carolyn Boiarsky); (20) "Communication Art, Writing Craft, and Audience Response" (Alma I. Ilacqua); (21) "Student Sensitivity to Teachers' Criteria: A Study of Basic Writers" (Deborah H. Holdstein, Linda DeCelles, and Tim Redman); and (22) "Evaluation of Composition in Shoreham-Wading River" (Mark F. Goldberg). (HTH)