Reviews a sixth grader's book report on Paul Fox's "The Slave Dancer" and draws critical inferences about the student's lack of real engagement with literature. (TB)

Discusses Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island," especially the characters of Long John Silver and Jim, and why the novel continues to be read today by adolescents. Discusses, also, the character of Jimmy Little, the adolescent protagonist of "Somewhere in the Darkness," a contemporary novel. Furnishes questions for…

Investigates how students in an upper-level sociology course wrote critiques and how their texts were evaluated by four professors in the discipline. Finds that students received higher scores if they found weaknesses in the source article, basing their judgments on disciplinary knowledge; and neither major nor educational level was a strong…

Results of study to measure the effectiveness of Discover&Enlighten, a newsletter of the University of Missouri's College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, indicate that respondents (n=150) desire a mix of stories, have a positive perception of the newsletter, and consider it to be truthful. (Contains 17 references.) (JOW)

Explains that as young readers respond to narrative texts in a variety of media, they repeatedly step in and out of the fictional universe of their different stories. Outlines contemporary texts that foster various forms of such border crossing, in and out of diegesis, the framework of events as narrated in the text. Explores how an awareness of…

Describes a study that showed how and what two classes of middle-track 10th graders wrote and learned when their teacher employed reader-based and teacher-centered instructional tasks for discussing and writing about a short story. Finds that reader-based tasks for reading and writing may enable teachers to rethink literature instruction in…

Reminisces about the author's childhood reading experiences and how they were to him a refuge. Gives a reader response reading of Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer." (TB)

Shares the work of one college freshman class whose journal entries demonstrate how reader response can be a powerful metacognitive tool. (RS)

Describes a study in which 24 subjects received 1 of 4 prose excerpts, each labeled as fiction or nonfiction and manipulated to refer to a familiar or unfamiliar social group. Concludes that the impact on readers' beliefs of fiction messages about unfamiliar peoples may equal or exceed that of nonfiction messages. (SG)

Uses the author's poems to illustrate the interrelationships among a poem's rhythm, lineation, and syntax. (MM)

Presents an open letter addressed to Morton B. Zuckerman of "U.S. News & World Report" concerning the magazine's survey/article "America's Best Colleges" which received a great deal of public attention. Criticizes the survey for failing to help families make better choices among institutions and failing to encourage colleges to do a better job for…

Responds to "Job Search Activity Patterns of Successful and Unsuccessful Job Seekers," article by Diane Kjos in March 1988 issue of this journal. Presents firsthand impressions while working as an employment counselor for dislocated workers. Concedes that research is necessary but asserts that even most comprehensive study cannot compare with…

Reacts positively to Claiborn and Lichtenberg's "Interactional Counseling" (1989), claiming it brings together many diverse sources in a cogent, logical, and thoughtful manner but criticizes them for not providing explicit guidance about how the field should proceed. Asks questions about the nature of counseling and counseling…

Claims Claiborn and Lichtenberg's "Interactional Counseling" (1989) brings together disparate definitions and views of counseling into a comprehensive and integrated interactional point of view. Comments on the conceptual organization of the basic concepts and change sections of the article. (ABL)

Responds to view expressed by Wittmer in previous article concerning doctoral programs in counselor education seeking accreditation review by the Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) rather than by the American Psychological Association. Discusses differences between counselors and psychologists and…