With each issue focusing on different themes, volume 17 of "Inside English" looks at the writing process, literature and literacy, composition and creativity, and pedagogical alternatives and classroom writing. In addition to regular columns on the English Council of California Two-Year Colleges (ECCTYC) and legislative concerns, the following feature articles are included: (1) "Teaching the Writing Process: An Organic Approach for Basic Writers," by Kim Flachmann; (2) "How to Teach More and Work Less: Student-Led Discussions," by Alison Kuehner; (3) "Lessons in the Progressive Approach to Teaching Composition: Notes of a Novice Teacher," by Michael Martin; (4) "The Computer Classrooms: Students, Choices and Technology," by Ronald Hartwell; (5) "Class Struggle: Teaching Maupassant's 'The Necklace'," by Daniel M. E. Landau; (6) "Positive Aspects of Teaching in 'Blended' Freshman Composition Classes," by Bart Edelman; (7) "Generating Discussion in the Classroom: Students Make the First Move," by Lee Ann Morgan; (8) "On Teaching and Dead Poets," by Ellen Wall; (9) "Vocational Students as Transfers," by Marlene Griffith and Ann Connor; (10) "Visual Thinking and Creativity: Triggering and the Composing Process," by Vincent F. Piro; (11) "Journals and the Writing Process: Dreams and Inward Journeys," by Marjorie Ford; (12) "Teaching Creative Writing: Pouring Concrete Over Flowers," by Amy Jones; (13) "Community Colleges in the '90s: Bridges in Economic Development," by David Mertes; (18) "Communication in Our Time: Language and the Newspaper Medium," by Gregory Favre; (19) "ECCTYC's Fall 1989 Statewide Conference: Twelve Easy Pieces: Sampling the Sessions"; (20) "A Pedagogical Debate: Notes from the Underground: A Traditionalist Polemic," by Mark Hawkins; (21) "Single- and Multiple-Draft Revisions: How Much Revising Is Enough?" by Kim Silveira Wolterbeek; (22) "Overcoming 'Feedback Block': Using Audio-Cassettes in Writing Classes," by Steve Flick; (23) "Advanced Comp: What Can You Say About Chocolate-Covered Manhole Covers?" by Paul Osze; (24) "Special-Needs Students: Enriching the Teacher and the Class," by Marilyn W. Anderson; and (24) "In Other Words...: But the Pencil Is Mightier Than the Pen," by Jack Quintero. (JMC)