Instead of being encouraged to act in a professional manner, graduate students are continually reminded of their professional inferiority by the English department. (HOD)

Traces the magnitude of the turn away from the liberal arts in American community colleges and suggests ways that faculty members in literature and the humanities might accommodate themselves to this change. (HOD)

Directs attention to six representative problems that confront university departments offering specialized graduate Programs for two-year college English teachers: implementation of national guidelines, staffing, accommodating university personnel regulations to the nontraditional program staff, attracting students, finding jobs for graduates, and…

Offers ten practical suggestions for ways two-year college English teachers can understand and work with the nontraditional student. (HOD)

The responsibility of the English instructor in a two-year college is to offer quality language instruction that is responsive to the needs of all persons in the community. (HOD)

A writing center derives its definition from the services it renders. (HOD)

Provides a simple scheme that allows students to see and talk about themselves as writers by listing the general characteristics of writers, including their actions, attitudes, and language. (HOD)

The fact that the writing center provides a direct educational service to students is in no way a cause for shame and embarrassment. (HOD)

To work with a student in a writing center, the tutor must know his/her relation to the teacher who referred that student to the lab, his/her relation to the student who comes in for help, and, finally, his/her feelings about him/herself. (HOD)

Suggests two methods by which the graduate student tutor may deal with some of the problematic situations created by his/her being neither exactly a student nor quite yet a professional. (HOD)

Annotates 11 articles that display the multiple benefits an effective writing center program provides for the entire academic community. (HOD)

Although the Ann Arbor decision was based on a very narrow issue, the evidence used by the court in arriving at the decision is significant as a basis for future court actions in other circumstances. (HOD)

Two ways of stimulating creativity--meditation and structured physical movement--bring a new dimension to the teaching of composition by encouraging visualization and imagery, strengthening the integration of both hemispheres of the brain, and allowing the brain to rest. (HOD)

Instead of approaching writing form as a quality essential to the finished product, it may be useful to discuss it--at least initially in the writing process--as something that emerges during writing and that can be refined during the last editing stages of the process. (HOD)

Argues that literature classes will grow more interesting and more effective if educators coordinate two kinds of emphases: allowing for discovery and moving toward productivity. Offers four principles for developing assignments: respect the process; nourish the participants; aim for a variety of products; and reflect together on process,…