Online education continues to permeate mainstream teaching techniques in higher education settings. Teaching upper-level classes in an online setting is having a major impact on education as a whole and is fundamentally altering global learning. "Cases on Critical and Qualitative Perspectives in Online Higher Education" offers a…

A. E. van Vogt's theory of "unreality" explains in part how he has become so prolific in a literary genre--science fiction/science fantasy--which only recently has experienced a rise in popularity. His theory states that the science fictional sentence must have in it something that requires a contribution from the reader. If the author…

Discusses the process of writing usable instructions, relying on organization, formatting, and visual displays to aid comprehension. (JAD)

Compares the steps in the writing process to the stages of having a baby. (RL)

Argues that heuristics may be empirical and intuitive as well as rational, and presents the advantages of intuitive heuristics such as freewriting in the invention stage of the writing process. (DD)

Addresses the why of writing, arguing that it is a creative act in which knowledge is produced as part of the process of writing itself. States that writing defines the writer's identity and thought processes. (SK)

Argues that authorship and not authority should be celebrated in the writing classroom. Argues that texts that students and composition teachers write should be considered not as definitive or authoritative, but open-ended, growing, and free. (RS)

Presents an annotated bibliography of works by writers discussing their own writing processes. Includes numerous references to interviews with poets and novelists. (JAD)

Offers suggestions and examples of how to write clear and effective notes, cautions, and warnings. (SR)

Presents a profile of Patricia McKissack, giving insight into the forces that shape her work and beliefs behind it. (MG)

Argues that postmodern theories of writing have enlivened and enriched appreciation of the nature and process of writing and of the complex cultural mediations of texts themselves, particularly canonical ones. Maintains that postmodern theory contains powerful contradictions on many levels, and its uses for an emancipatory cultural politics are…

Presents portions of an interview with Paul Zindel. Includes his explanation of his writing processes. Reports Zindel's view that writing what the author knows best is the greatest secret to writing. (SG)

Discusses briefly the challenge of writing the technical documentation for automobiles required by the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendment. (SR)

Argues that while creative writing has important lessons to learn from composition in reference to process, pedagogy, and epistemology, composition has significant lessons to learn from creative writing in terms of axiology. Concludes that composition scholars are in a position to imagine alternative configurations that may be more suited to their…

In this discussion, the author highlights the relationship between language and identity by discussing notions such as language as a symbolic resource (Heller, 1995) and language as a badge of identity (Buruma, 2003) in a society. The reasons why a number of bilingual writers have decided to write in their second languages are explored, and issues…