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)

Presents findings of a survey of undergraduate reading preferences. Notes that only female science and nonscience majors read significant amounts of writing by women and that much of this reading is done outside of class. (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)

Reports the results of a survey on the use of teacher produced writing in the composition class. Discusses the reasons why teachers do or do not use their own writing models. (MM)

Offers suggestions, based on own experience with a workshop focusing on graphics, in creating a technical communication workshop involving both the business and the academic community. (MM)

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

Describes students' assumptions about the nature of literature and presents teaching strategies to counter these assumptions and engage students in creative and analytical writing appropriate to a range of literature courses. (MM)

Suggests that the Tarot deck can serve as a mechanism for generating many coherent stories and that the basic elements of narrative are inherent in and arise from the structure of a Tarot reading. (HOD)

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)

Lists sources that provide examples, case histories of other English majors, suggestions for other jobs, and additional resources for the job-seeking English major. (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)