New Mexico's Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development has survived major loss of federal funding and subsequent retrenchment, watched enrollment rise, and begun construction of a new campus. The institute is dedicated to study, creative application, preservation, and care of Indian arts and culture, and houses…

Argues that, although writing teachers have come to see writing as socially constructed, they have failed to understand the teacher's role in such meaning construction. Calls for development of a theory of reading student texts which takes into account teachers' reading of the students themselves. Illustrates reading and misreading of student…

Discusses the shift in freshman composition courses from formal expository essays based on literature to a less formal composition drawn from the student's experience and observations. (TO)

Applauds urging teachers to let students write about what they know, to be more expressive and personal, to make meaning, to discover and explore their knowledge and experiences. Urges teachers not abandon claims to authority or their allegiance to the expository principle even when it is the students' own knowledge and private experiences…

In working with television commercials in communications study, appreciation of differing forms and media of communication can be increased. In addition, one finds new methods to approach the teaching of communication skills. (Author/MF)

Clarifies some common misconceptions about the nature of narcissism and projection and employs recent developments in post-Freudian psychoanalytic theory to explain how projective activities are filtered and altered by a certain notion of textual objectivity: objectivity as defined by the text's material signifiers. (FL)

James Agee's "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" is like many other works of American non-fiction in that it concentrates on the narrator's successful quest for wholeness of vision, a sense of home, and roots. (DD)

Offers excellent tips for candidates' interviewing preparation. Cautions that candidates need to be themselves in interviews. Stresses that candidates must remember that they too have rights, and primary among them is the right to selfhood. (RAE)

Discusses arguments for retaining the status quo in academic literacy, including E. D. Hirsch's argument for cultural literacy. Argues for a view of literacy based on a rhetorical understanding of history and knowledge. (JK)

Replies to Steinberg's article on protocol analysis in this issue and argues that even if the writing process is a problem-solving process, it is too complex to analyze sufficiently using protocols. (SRT)

Examines Ciceronian "inventio," comparing it with twentieth century philosophical stances in several contexts. Urges composition teachers to revive the rhetoric of Cicero, particularly its use of pro and con debate. (MM)

Notes discrepancies between findings from textual studies and classroom practices and textbooks. Reviews research on cohesion and writing development. Argues that teachers must critically examine writing research and apply it in the classroom. (JAD/RAE)

Examines the difficulty an aspiring poet faces in publishing, and by reprinting an example, praises poetry as a refining of raw experience and exhorts all poets to continue writing. (CRH)

Argues in favor of teaching thesis and the forms of exposition by means of assignments such as personal narrative, autobiography, and observation out of direct experience. Describes one such assignment. (RL)