This article reflects on where and how empirical research, focusing particularly on college/adult writing and literate practice, has appeared over the last century in the complete runs of "English Journal," "College English," "College Composition and Communication," "Research in the Teaching of English," and "Teaching English in the Two-Year…

In this article, I consider the literacy practices that emerged in an in-school elective course centered in the literacy tradition of African American women. Drawing from spatial perspectives (Leander& Sheehy, 2004), I explore what it means to consider this course an "Other space" (Foucault,1986), as a space created without the constraints of a…

Drawing from a study of one student's literate engagements with English studies and fan fiction and related fan art over her two years in an MA program, which also reached back to the earlier writing she did for English classes and other writings before the study began, this article employs sociohistoric theory to examine the profoundly dialogic…

This article presents an annotated bibliography of research works about digital/technology tools for literacy instruction, discourse/cultural analysis, literacy, literary response/literature/narrative, media-information literacy/media use, professional development/teacher education related to English/language arts, reading, second language…

A study of the use of sentence fragments in 50 books and magazines suggests that the term "fragment" should be redefined to include "broken sentences" (always an error) and "minor sentences" (acceptable in any student writing). (DD)

Proposes a way of conducting a research project that involves the teachers and provides a reliable grading scale for evaluating college students' ability to write compositions. (RB)

A study which defines some easily measurable syntactic and semantic cues within student essays that predict and perhaps determine readers' responses. (DD)

A definition of teaching is offered. Several hypotheses concerning the nature of the writing process and the factors effecting this process are discussed. The need for research on unexamined aspects of written composition is indicated. (BN)

Two members of the staff of the National Assessment report on one analysis that sought to relate different kinds of writing errors to each other. (RB) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Results (Secondary Analyses).

Stephen P. Witte outlines a conceptual model useful for classifying research in written composition; Roy C. O'Connell surveys contents of volumes 1-10 of this journal; and Arthur Applebee and George Hillocks, Jr., trade comments about James Britton's study as reported in "The Development of Writing Abilities (11-18)." (GT)

Provides an annotated bibliography of research in the teaching of English published from July 1995 to December 1995. Includes annotations on books, articles, and dissertations. Divides the annotations into sections on historical studies, researcher education, teacher education, and writing. (TB)