"Primary research counts, but we don't teach it." This was the sentiment, if these were not the actual words, of Lynee Lewis Gaillet in her critique of the traditional composition curriculum at the spring 2011 annual meeting of the College English Association in St. Petersburg. Gaillet proposes an alternative to furthering students' sometimes…

A teacher of creative writing discusses some of the problems students encounter in writing fiction and suggests the teacher's role is to provide a stimulating climate. (RB)

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)

Describes how the author changed his pedagogical stance to address students' interests and concerns in a college composition course. Argues that this approach helps explore students' educational values and improves the quality of their writing. (MM)

Discusses expectations of technical writing from the perspectives of engineers engaged in varied academic and business activities. (MM)

Stresses the importance of a background in English in the development of an attorney's communication skills. (HOD)

Attributes the decline in student writing ability to the conflict between society's demand for standardization, caution, and escapism and a writer's need to be subjective, adventurous, and self-centered. (HOD)