Encourages composition teachers to adopt a rhetoric of the sentence based on appeals to the intellect, in place of the currently popular rhetoric of the paragraph based on appeals to the emotions. (DD)

Traditional academic diplomas and degrees remain the most prominent credentials for the workplace. Educational participation and rates of attainment of traditional and other credentials at all levels are at an all-time high. Between 1970 and 1997, female postsecondary enrollments increased by 67.2%. Blacks and Hispanics, however, remained…

Questions the current expectation that writing theory will serve pedagogy in direct, immediate ways, because of the extraordinary variety and complexity of the writing process. (DD)

A response to Diane Hume George's "The Miltonic Ideal," which describes the evolution of consciousness and the involvement of women in academia. (DD)

Analyses of three poems establish the presence of diminishing and building designs in the form and content of the poems. (DD)

Examines the relationship that the field of composition studies has had in the past and is tending toward now with disciplines both genuinely and conditionally scientific. (JL)

Discusses how to teach literature so that the student will most successfully retain and assimilate the information developed in the work. (RB)

This paper addresses the subject of cheating and plagiarism via the World Wide Web. After spending just a few hours browsing on the Internet, the author found dozens of "cheat" sites that offered term papers of all kinds. Some sites charge a fee for papers, some sites only request that students join by sending in one of their papers to add to the…

Author, who teaches psychology at Wesleyan University, discusses the differences in approach to teaching of the traditionalist" teacher and the teacher concerned with experiments in which emotions and life relevance play a central part." (Author/DR)

The purpose of the Transition to Technology Program (TTT) is to introduce persons who have traditionally not been exposed to technological education or careers to an overview of the basic concepts of technology and career options in technical fields. Women, minorities, and the economically and educationally disadvantaged, those groups with low…

Argues that Joseph Conrad's political novels belie the sweeping and vague rhetoric sometimes used to describe them. States that Conrad, disillusioned with materialism in his political novels, imagines that "industrialism and commercialism" may foster wars between democracies. Contends Conrad's interest is at least divided between a grammar of…

This booklet, designed to promote the letter writing habit, provides information about writing letters in a variety of situations. It is divided into several short sections with illustrations. Reasons to write letters and postcards are offered by several authors and celebrites including Stevie Wonder, Darryl Stingley, and "Dear Abby." Addresses…

Author encounters poems by women as part of the matrix of her own life and the lives of her women students. In so doing, she and they discover the meaning of literature in a new way. (Author/NL)

The 34 papers in this volume discuss a variety of technical writing topics. The following are some of these topics: (1) definitions and historical analyses of technical writing; (2) using case studies in technical writing classes; (3) advice to beginning teachers on how to teach graphics in technical communication classes; (4) preparing for an…