A study using spectrographic analysis investigated whether six university professors would modify the temporal organization of their speech when delivering identical lectures to low-proficiency and high-proficiency nonnative and native speaker groups. Results showed no significant modifications of speech rate; articulation differences were between…

Responds to John Rouse's attack on Mina Shaughnessy's teaching strategies for composition instruction (see EJ 209 264). Offers personal experiences to illustrate the role of the basic writing teacher and the uses of authority in the basic writing classroom. (JT)

All campuses and units of the University and Community College System of Nevada annually submit data to the Chancellor's Office on affirmative action. This report provides tables of affirmative action data for students enrolled during fall 1992 and professional and classified staff employed during 1992. First, student data is provided on gender…

Describes direct and indirect voltage input techniques and their applications to voltage measurements with a microcomputer. Details circuitry that can be used for this with a gameport. Gives examples of circuit modifications, application of voltage measurement, and alternatives to this method. (CW)

Cites over 75 examples of errors in usage which were made by newswriters for the "Washington Post," suggesting that they indicate the social dimensions of language decay. (DD)

Suggests that the radical teacher outside the classroom should now bring himself into the classroom and radicalize his teaching also. (Author/ML)

A paper presented at Forum on the Status of Women in the Profession at annual convention of Modern Language Association of America (New York, December 27, 1970). (Editor)

The liberal arts will be in trouble when the public discovers that professors' efforts are as impotent as their claims are extravagant. (JH)

Examines Rudolf B. Gottfried's attack ( Our New Poet: Archetypal Criticism and The Fairie Queene," PMLA," vol. 83, no. 5, pp. 1362-77) on Frye's Anatomy of Criticism" and The Structure of Imagery in The Fairie Queene" and A. C. Hamilton's The Structure of Allegory in The Fairie Queene." (SW)

Argues that the myth of the self-made man commits a fundamental error by downplaying the importance of social definition and equating masculine growth with an escape from the boundaries of origins (race, class, sex) and institutions. Discusses the myth in terms of its history and writing pedagogies employed in some classrooms. (TB)

The abysmally low representation of women writers in standard freshman textbooks (7-8 percent) scarcely does justice to the literary achievements of women. (Author/NL)

Several contradictions in the Committee on Public Doublespeak's approach to its work could be resolved if the Committee would adopt George Orwell's views on language. (DD)

Discusses the work of Blake and how it situates the author in thinking about literary criticism and theory and how it affects his teaching. (SRT)

Examines the relationships among students and with teachers in an expressivist classroom environment. Highlights diverse forms of authority, reward, and structure that develop in a classroom emphasizing self-discovery. Describes the emergent structures when emphasis is placed on generating and positioning difference in the classroom. (HB)

In order to discourage students from writing papers which stagnate in quality or range, the teacher of a university literature course assigned four sequential papers, all on the same poem. (DD)