Reviews "Choices Made, Worlds Created: The Rhetoric of AERJ" by Margaret J. Marshall and Loren S. Barrett, on how the rhetoric employed in a given group influences its members' thoughts and practices and applies the analysis to the teacher-researcher relationship. (SR)

Argues that textual criticism can offer a theoretically sound and practically useful base for the rhetorical reading of texts. Maintains that the study of controversy, approached through "representative anecdotes," offers an appropriate frame for expanding textual criticism into an intertextual arena. (SR)

Responds to an article in the same issue. Sets Michael Leff's style of criticism in context by describing a taxonomy of critical methods, revealing its commitments and indicating its strengths and weaknesses. Argues that the dialectic Leff proposes with postmodernism is problematized by an incommensurability between that approach and his own…

This response to criticism of an earlier article on situated critical pedagogy discusses social construction versus narcissism; student empowerment; perceptions of learning and teaching; situated cognition versus relationalism; knowledge and action; and the nature of theory. (eight references) (LRW)

Discusses the poetry of the West Indian author Edward Kamau Brathwaite. Explores Brathwaite's use of the oral mode to emphasize the African tradition in the Caribbean voice. (PRA)

Discusses the notion of Robert Frost as "that terrifying poet." Analyses some of Frost's poetry in this light and discusses the reactions of students. (PRA)

Explores the ways in which Henry James' narrative use of euphemism in "The Golden Bowl" can offer new interpretive avenues for the novel itself, for literary texts in general, and for the teacher-critic's professional activity in the larger context of the academic institution. (RS)

Explores Toni Morrison's "Beloved," Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony," and Marta Traba's "Mothers and Shadows." Identifies the novels as resistance tales that articulate minority perspectives. Points out that all three are dialogic and contain fundamental moments of captivity and liberation. Observes that, in each…

Reacts to Fischer et al's article concerning reconceptualizing multicultural counseling. Agrees that psychotherapy is best understood as a function of the culture which sustains it. Discusses the implications for research brought forward by the article's view that psychotherapy is a branch of rhetoric, particularly the art of persuasion. (MKA)

Reacts to Fischer et al's article concerning reconceptualizing multicultural counseling. Argues that the conditions identified are interesting, but other conditions exist, and that the suggestion of reconceptualization is not valid. Discusses the implications presented by the authors' choice of language. Proposes that knowledge of multicultural…

Reviews literature concerning the quantitative synthesis of single-subject research. Discusses the general rationales, describes procedures for synthesizing, and reviews results of application of single-subject research procedures. Suggests that procedures based on percentage of overlapping data between baseline and treatment are justifiable and…

Presents a counter position to Warren Throckmorton's article "Efforts to Modify Sexual Orientation: A Review of Outcome Literature and Ethical Issues." The position of this paper, simply put, is: there is no illness, there is no cure. (Author)

Explores possible intersections between composition and creative writing. Suggests that one practice in which creative writers engage (discussing the craft of writing) is worthy of compositionists' attention, because it establishes a broad area of shared concern between the two groups. Concludes that "it should seem quite evident" that…

Explains how business writing can be taught using examples from modern literature and the analytical tools of literary criticism. Uses Michener, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Steinbeck to illustrate techniques. (SK)

Discusses Willa Cather's novel "Lucy Gayheart," which provides the only public access to Cather's sense of connection to Virginia Woolf, a writer she admired. Uses Cather's "provocative" placement of Mrs. Ramsay as a way to re-frame thinking about this novel. Considers it as an experimental modernist novel. (PA)