Presents an interview with Joseph Williams and Gregory Colomb, English professors, writing teachers, and coauthors of "Style: Toward Clarity and Grace." (SR)

Presents an interview with James Moffet in which he discusses his education, individualization, assessing writing teachers, the "Interaction" program, censorship, and conducting workshops for English teachers. (RS)

Suggests that excellence in writing, as in many things, will flourish in a climate that is open to it, wherever and however it may express itself. Argues that a fundamental skill that writing teachers must teach their students is to identify and describe the things that drive writing for them at any given time. (RS)

Presents an interview with Amy Tan. Reveals how she became a writer and discusses her views on teachers of writing, about the book "The Joy Luck Club," about autobiography and fiction, and about writing and rewriting or the creative process itself. (NH)

Describes the experience of the author's first short story, written in the fifth grade, being met with persistent disinterest by his teacher. Describes how, although it was three years before he wrote again, the teacher's shadow ultimately inspired him. (SR)

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)