Advocates career education as a means of merging the theoretical and the practical sides of education and of explaining and helping people to understand, value, and appreciate their participation in society's system of work and education. (TP)

A coordinated instruction system can provide greater flexibility in an atmosphere of rapid change. This would include greater use of instructional media, work experience programs in the community, provision of special services to the disadvantaged, and articulation agreements which allow transfer from lower to upper division technical degrees. (MN)

Provides an annotated bibliography of nine current articles from the ERIC database on using computers as instructional tools. Includes articles related to computer uses in reading and writing classes; for spelling improvement; to accommodate learning disabled students; and for speech, sign, or foreign-language courses. (AJL)

Describes and analyzes the composition textbooks, or first books of compositions, all written between 1838 and 1855, which were all markedly different from the best-known writing texts of the period. Provides a broader account of how writing was taught in the mid-nineteenth century in America. (HB)

Suggests that the lack of a target audience and interesting topics could account for the frequent inept attempts in the freshman composition course. (DS)

Comments on the interview of bell hooks in the preceding issue of the "Journal of Advanced Composition." Critiques hooks's concepts regarding audience and multicultural pedagogy. (HB)

This report compares the grades of transfer students at Appalachian State University with the grades of native students. It also shows the choice of academic major of the transfers and compares their cumulative grade point averages with the native students' averages in these major fields. A random sample of the records of 82 transfers and 82…

Students' difficulties in assimilating new concepts can be a barrier to learning and may be exacerbated if the concepts are introduced in terms of detailed verbal definitions. Cognitive psychology suggests that a better approach to teaching new concepts may be to use prototypical examples of the concept as building-blocks from which verbal…

Narrates two classroom experiences to demonstrate how the emotions that seem most out of place in the classroom can provide the basis for a radical pedagogy. (SR)

Presents insights that the Oral Proficiency Testing Program of the Foreign Service Institute can give writing teachers and focuses specifically on how these insights can help them to identify and articulate appropriate objectives for basic writing courses and to develop curricula appropriate to those objectives. (EL)

Discusses the need for more explicit data on successful retention programs. Considers problems in collecting institutionwide, local, state, regional, and national information. Urges leadership from professional associations to establish policy directions ensuring the availability of student retention information. (DMM)

Presents findings from a 1993 study of 100 leaders in the field of bibliographic and library instruction regarding their perceptions of the most helpful bibliographic instructional resources. Provides descriptions of responses related to best programs, monographs, journals, journal articles, and other resources. (MAB)

Suggests that, if politics matters to any field, it should matter to composition instruction, which faces the crisis of postmodernity along with other disciplines. Considers how a truly common knowledge might be pursued and its possible relevance for the field of composition studies. (HB)

Describes the problem of importing multiculturalism into the writing classroom and specifically the possibility of a multicultural approach to writing style. Considers the ghettoization of student writing that appears to be riddled with "errors." (HB)

Describes a study examining the effect of the Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership on the lives and careers of 15 recipients. Indicates that recipients felt that winning the award was empowering in terms of personal attitudes, career position, and influencing others within their field. (MAB)