Analyzes ballot comments of judges who were evaluating competitive rhetorical criticism events. Summarizes their comments to provide criteria for students competing in this speaking event. (PD)

Defends Blume's works by presenting internal evidence displaying the honesty and lack of exaggeration that make her books popular with adolescents and unpopular with critics. (CRH)

The usages of transaction and interaction are differentiated as reflections of differing paradigms, the transactional theory of reading is disassociated from information processing and interactive processing, and the implications for research of various concepts basic to the total transactional theory of reading are discussed. (HOD)

Discusses new trends in children's literature on growing up. (HOD)

Describes an exercise in which students must compare Congreve and Shakespeare and suggests that it is ultimately unfair to the student to remove the quotes from their context and pass judgment on them. (CRH)

Concludes that the inadequacy of many "popular" writers for children is too blatant to be ignored by English departments, who must therefore push forward their pupils' discrimination. (CRH)

Examines some of the cultural and pedagogical forces that shaped nineteenth century rhetorical history and resulted in the obsession with mechanical correctness that for so many years defined the college course in written rhetoric. (HTH)

Explores how Cormier learned the art of writing, its rewards, and the influences on his work. (CRH)

Contains reviews of picture books for children, stories for younger readers, stories for older readers, poetry, and nonfiction. (CRH)

Describes a composition course that uses stylistic and rhetorical analysis to help students become sensitive to the surface structure of their own prose. (MM)

Examines the parallels between Ellison's "Invisible Man" and Hamilton's works. States that Hamilton is strong in elucidating the experience of growing up simultaneously black and American and that it is a continuing condemnation of our times when she must reiterate Ellison's words concerning the duality of nonwhite literature. (CRH)

Presents 11 of the more that 50 women whose works are known from the Elizabethan Age. (CRH)

Discusses several levels of mystery fiction for children and explains how these narratives extend and shape the literary reading habits of the young. (HOD)

Reviews and recommends recent new publications and rereleases of both fiction and nonfiction works for young children, older adolescents, and adults. Genres include science fiction, mysteries, and biographies. (CRH)

Argues that critics of children's literature who extol the folktale should think twice before so vehemently scorning popular fiction such as the Nancy Drew series and that historians of children's literature should consider further what some writers of children's classics may have owed to the formulas of popular adult fiction. (HOD)