Four issues of a University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) newsletter by and for teaching assistants (TAs) are presented, with focus on writing, grading, undergraduate instruction, and plagiarism. Topics include: making writing assignments that are clear and provide clear grading criteria; writing with computers, writing by scientists and technologists, writing historical essays, principles for good essay and paper topics, peer group editing, presentation guidelines for written work, punctuation, the passive voice, ways to perpetuate either poor or good writing among students, common myths about writing, teaching reading for writing, correcting student writing, differing conceptions of grading, grade inflation, grading on a curve, in-process evaluations, bad lecturing, the quality of undergraduate instruction, the state of teaching in the humanities, characteristics of excellent teachers, attitudes of today's freshmen, plagiarism in the classroom, preventing cheating on exams, why college students cheat, policies and procedures on cheating at the University of California at Los Angeles, and selling term papers. (SW)