Designed primarily for English faculty at two-year colleges in California, "Inside English" includes articles on instructional innovations in teaching remedial writing, literature courses, and freshman composition, and on major curricular, administrative, and employment issues in the field. The four issues in volume 8 include the following feature articles: (1) "Where Research and Practice Meet: The Theoretical Foundations of an English Program," by Ruth Maddox; (2) "Fair Is Fair: Course Rotation at Mt. SAC (San Antonio College)," by Jim Moore; (3) "Teaching English As a Strange Language," by Roselle M. Lewis; (4) "Bilingual Bridge: Faculty-Curriculum-Lab," by Nancy H. Nadeau; (5) "Teachers, Students, and Writer's Intuition," by Kevin Ryan; (6) "Controlled Composition: An Alternative to Grammar in the Writing Laboratory," by Helen Heightsman Gordon; (7) "Unlearning Comp: Paragraphs," by Richard Tracey; (8) "Making Better Beginnings: Generating Effective Writing Assignments...Across the Curriculum," by Andrew Moss and Carol Holder; (9) "Writing to Learn Writing," by Judith Hert; (10) "Keeping Alive by Reading and Writing: Book Reviewers as Role Models," by Jim Moore; (11) "What I Did When... Resistance Seemed the Name of the Game," by Georgia Logan; (12) "A Unique Writing Program: Role Models Help Build a Bridge to Success," by Patricia McGrath; (13) "A Plea for More Literature and Humanities in the Community College Curriculum," by Jack Gill; and (14) "A Meditation on the Nature of Composition," by Doug Lane. (AYC)