For the past few decades, composition researchers have devoted critical attention to studying the ways that African American students employ Africanized linguistic and rhetorical patterns successfully in expository writing situations. More recently, research has focused on the use of African-based rhetorical patterns, since the use of African…

In this article, the author shares his notes toward a shared future for National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). He discusses how activism has been at the heart of both organizations, how language activism in particular has separated NCTE and CCCC--and brought them together, and…

Presents a response refuting Leonard Moskovit's essay on the use and misuse of the referent "this," arguing that his analysis of 28 examples and resulting principles for evaluating broad referents are in error. Includes Moskovit's defense of his essay. (HTH)

Presents a program for teaching students to write and suggests ways that linguistics can contribute to the program. (DD)

Dicussion of the usage and meaning of new words, and the means by which they are acquired. (DR)

Describes an attack on the study of linguistics and on the National Council of Teachers of English by a back-to-basics comic strip. (DD)

Identifies the characteristics of clear references to explain why certain kinds of broad pronoun reference are clear while others are not. (HTH)

An allegorical argument favoring the use of both standard dialect and nonstandard dialects in English speech. (RB)

A defense of prescriptivism against charges that it is bad linguistics and a form of tyranny. (DD)

Some of Professor Kenneth Pike's tagmemic theory is explained, and an attempt to apply it in freshman English classes at the University of Michigan is described. Two writing subjects (a concrete object and an abstraction) are examined from the aspects of contrast; range of variation; and distribution with respect to class, context, and matrix. The…

Argues that style is rhetoric and that a writer's style is the product of his or her choices of ways to arrange and express ideas within and between sentences. Shows how the concept of style as option offers value as a classroom tool. (FL)

The basic issues of the "new" rhetoric include (1) the ways in which contemporary rhetoric is "new", (2) some of the problems facing contemporary rhetoric, and (3) the relation of rhetoric to the teaching of English. Two factors contributing to the concept of a "new" discipline are a revival of interest in classical rhetoric and the development of…

Presents revised versions of four symposium papers examining the work of linguist, teacher, and educator of teachers James Britton. Includes "James Britton: An Impressionistic Sketch" (Mary Kay Tirrell); "Collaborating with Jimmy Britton" (Gordon M. Pradl); "Rejoicing in the Margins" (John Warnock); and "A…