Discusses the differences between male and female utopian (and dystopian) writers. Notes that some male utopian and dystopian writers emphasize science and product, stressing social and political theories of class control and struggle, whereas some female utopian writers stress conservation, community, and collective action. (RS)

The most important implication of a reader response textual model for the teaching of writing is that unless students know how to read they cannot learn how to write, and unless students know how to read well they will not write well. (HOD)

Describes one approach to teaching an American literature survey course that focuses attention on authors' responses to business. (HOD)

Suggests the English curriculum should no be changed, but rather that English teachers rethink and change their perceptions and attitudes towards themselves, the English profession, and the business world. (HOD)

A publisher strongly advocates a liberal education background for a career in book publishing. (HOD)

Stresses the need for the medical profession to gain an appreciation for the "poetic" to broaden horizons. (HOD)

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

Comments on how a background in English helped toward a career as an academic administrator. (HOD)

Examines career opportunities in writing-related jobs in business and industry for English majors. (HOD)

Problems of overspecialization, reclusive objectivity, timidity, deferentiality, and naivete are interrelated and their root cause lies in scholars not having the faintest awareness of the public responsibility of the scholar or how that public responsibility is consonant with individual gain or with the public good. (HOD)

Foreign language study has a humanistic value that should not be ignored. Foreign language study is as essential to a liberal arts education as is the study of mathematics to an education in technological and scientific fields. (HOD)

Liberal arts training is valuable not because it makes one "well-rounded" but because it makes one competitive. (HOD)

Explores some of the most frequent kinds of interactions that might occur between student and teacher in a conference. (HOD)

Describes a correction system that supplements and visually reinforces teacher responses to student papers by utilizing examples from those papers and emphasizing the positive aspects of the assignments. (HOD)

Presents five approaches to the teaching of poetry that instill the fear of poetry in students. Suggests poetry be presented as a complex combination of elements, none of which is the be-all and end-all of its importance or meaning. (HOD)