This article presents an approach to literary texts that develops students' language proficiency, content knowledge, and analytical skills through the interweaving of three content areas--literary analysis, stylistics, and culture--at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of the foreign language curriculum. Consistent with…

Describes how a "style analysis" sheet may be used in helping students to develop a more concrete and vigorous prose style. (DD)

Describes rewriting examples of good writing into "ordinary" writing, to identify what elements of style made the original version so effective. (HTH)

The author uses E.E. Cummings verse as a key to the development of the appreciation of poetry, and the development of languages, thought, and structure. (Editor/PG)

Encourages the study of critical and textual variations in order to raise students' awareness of how cultural and literary assumptions influence their reading and to show students how their understanding of a work can be altered by subtle variations. (DD)

Suggests several techniques for teaching grammar and making students aware of style at the same time. (RB)

Analysis of several translations of a single passage in the New Testament can teach students a great deal about style. (DD)

Briefly discusses the four composition philosophies: expressive, rhetorical, formalist, and mimetic. Recommends teaching the rhetorical, because of its emphasis on the reader. (HTH)

If lesbian and gay students are to be moved into the classroom writing communities consciously and aggressively, in the same way other "minorities" are included, then first-person narratives are an effective starting place for their own work and as material for reading and discussion. Half of the reading selections in one composition…

Examines the implicit, possibly unintentional, meanings embodied in some technical writing assignments. Discusses the conventions of plain technical writing, which underestimate its potential for communication. (HTH)

Urges that freshman composition teach students a general, non-academic, popular expository style, and that it be staffed by professional writers. (DD)

This paper discusses an approach to teaching third college year "bridge" courses, showing that students in a course that focuses on language and culture as well as students in an introductory course on literary analysis can benefit from using a stylistic approach to literacy texts to understand both form and content. The paper suggests that a…

Reports on an effort to teach poetry and not simply expose the student to it. (Editor)

The Pilgrim's Progress, apart from its hortatory religious nature, has imaginative, creative power to command the attention of English teachers at the college level and is discussed in terms of the classroom. (Editor)

Questions the wisdom of obscurantism as a basis for case writing. Contends that in its present state the case method, for most students, is an inefficient way of learning. Calls for a consensus that cases should be as well-written as other forms of scholarship. (PD)