Interviews the editor of "College Composition and Communication" regarding his perspective on the current state of composition studies and his sense of where the field might be headed. States that he advocates methodologies that "engage with the views and experiences of students." Finds that his contributions to the field…

Provides excerpts from two composition classes which use small group instruction in different ways, where the teacher is leader and model and where the teacher is not available as model. Concludes that writing teachers should articulate clearly a purpose for writing; and model ways of using writing that students can follow. (NH)