Describes the results of two pilot studies involving readers' spontaneous responses to short stories during the actual reading process. Analyzes the responses to show the nature of the reading process in the individual. Bibliography. (RW)

Argues that the teaching method instructors use to present poetry--direct/indirect, analytic/subjective, or reader focused/text focused--is influenced by the kind of relationship they wish to establish with the students. (MM)

Discusses successive drafts of a student's response to a short story, illustrating how an initial personal response to literature can be developed into a critical essay with a specific purpose and audience. (HTH)

Examines Rockwell's "Four Freedoms" posters and considers the historical circumstances during which they were mass-distributed. Observes how these paintings that praised the political and religious values of Americans were used to educate the people about the necessity of participation in World War II. (PD)

Advocates teaching the fairy tale as a way to introduce students to the complex and subtle processes of literature and to their own creative activity. (JL)

Focuses on administrators, particularly those at the University of California at Berkeley, and the rhetoric they used in response to student protest. Outlines the major lines of argument that administrators traditionally use and concludes that administrative rhetoric, as genre, is an undemocratic response to protest. (PD)

Reports the results of a personally conducted survey on graduate programs in English that ranged from amusing to appalling. (JL)

Provides a classification scheme for recognizing and analyzing the elements of graphic persuasion embodied in political cartoons. (PD)

Tested and supported was the hypothesis that students receiving high-structured film narrations will acquire more knowledge and will respond more favorably than those receiving low-structured film narrations. Results contribute additional data to evidence supporting the need for critical application of the kinetic structure theory in evaluating…