Argues that writing teachers must assist students to be more sensitive to the finer points of writing and to the power of language to move and persuade. (HOD)

Presents the growing emphasis on professionalism in English as a reflection of negative entropy, a temporary victory over the system's disintegration. Suggests that the new work in rhetoric, with its emphasis on service to people and the meaningful study of literature may provide fresh energy to the English profession. (MM)

Argues that it is not enough to teach students the techniques of interpreting literature, but that it is necessary to demand that students develop cultural literacy. States that college teachers need to show students that they too read literature for its bearing on the common life. (MM)

Urges that English departments can help university administrators rediscover the many contributions their faculties and courses can make to the institution at large. (MM)

Uses the writing of women authors to reflect on the value of women's domestic world. Suggests that far from being inferior, women's traditional perspective is a source of much needed humanism for both men and women. (MM)

Urges English teachers to discover new and ever more creative uses of computer and electronic technologies rather than fight their development. (MM)

Reviews current department efforts to emphasize the service functions of English. Suggests that the search for students must be tempered with the demand for quality in instruction and performance, whether the pursuit be of literacy or of literature. (MM)

Argues that a liberal arts education can be an agent for reunification--a means of seeing science, math, philosophy, and the social sciences, as well as the arts, as all part of the human experience. (MM)

Suggests that, in selecting readings or texts for their composition students, instructors should choose the best contemporary prose, thus giving their students models by which they can improve their own writing. (MM)

Argues that every year countless college professors are financially and professionally damaged and deceived by editors offering textbook contracts. (MM)

Presents Gregory Corso's poem, "Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway," as an intellectually profitable assignment graphically illustrating the metonymic and metaphoric modes. (MM)

Relates one teacher's experiences while teaching literature and composition to prison inmates. (HOD)

To better prepare for the job market, graduate students of English should be selective in their choice of schools, broaden their teaching experience, offer service to the English department, and concentrate on professional development through publications and presented papers. (HOD)

English departments must become involved in the training of teachers of writing at every level rather than concentrating exclusively on literary scholarship. (HOD)

Offers guidelines for choosing topics that are likely to yield potentially publishable papers, as well as suggestions about how to attempt to get "publishable" papers published. (HOD)