Presents three versions of a Judith Peraino poem ("Thoughts,""Unnatural," and "Quarreling") to illustrate a writer's editing processes. Includes comments by Peraino on her revision process. (MM)

This paper discusses writing as a social practice and speculates on how wikis might be used to promote higher quality academic writing and support collaborative learning. This study of undergraduate teacher trainees' online learning activities focuses on how shared spaces--wikis--might be used to communicate ideas and generate course-specific…

The National Council of Teachers of English awarded the coveted nonfiction prize to "Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea." Written by Sy Montgomery, with photographs by Nic Bishop, the book was further honored as a Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor recipient by the Association for…

Despite the importance of educational journals to teachers and other educational professionals, little attention has been given to educational communication or journalism, particularly those published by a minority teachers' state or local association. This study examines the "Texas Standard," which, beginning in 1926, provided…

The Association of American Publishers has hired a public-relations firm with a hard-hitting reputation to respond to the open-access-publishing movement, which campaigns for scientific results to be made freely available to the public. The firm, Dezenhall Resources, designs aggressive public-relations campaigns to counter activist groups. The…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of task-based writing instruction, a communicative language-teaching method, on second language acquisition and differentiation of instruction for English language learners during the independent work time instructional component of the Open Court Reading program. Through student-teacher…

The basic functions of the Academy are the editing of a grammar and a dictionary. The article suggests some improvements for the more expeditious and efficient publication of the dictionary. (Text is in Spanish.) (DS)

A system of text editing and processing that is not based on page proof, as conventionally, but rather on the author's manuscript. The index is sorted and compiled by computer by about the time the manuscript enters production, and is output in type concurrently with composition of the text. (Author/LS)

The editor of a weekly newspaper in Glenville, West Virginia, presents a personalized account of his transition from a big-city news reporter to editor-photographer-editorial writer-sports reporter of the "Glenville Democrat." (RB)

The concept of "product" underlies the choice of books to be published, as well as their advertising, design, and sale. (Author)

Proofreading is a slighted area in the business education curriculum. The author promotes teaching of proofreading as a necessary skill and cites various methods of proofreading and peripheral factors. (AG)

Examines how corrections are handled for both daily and weekly Arkansas newspapers. Finds that, although most papers publish corrections, less than one fourth have written correction policies. (RS)

English as a second language (ESL) students pose a challenge in the classroom because teachers' assumptions about the languages and cultural information in students' heads may be wrong. Students' assumptions about teachers, courses, and subjects may likewise be faulty. In this article, the authors offer teaching tips and assignment ideas for ESL…

This study reports on the effect of different levels of proficiency on the students' achievements in collaborative learning instruction among 30 Persian-speaking EFL college students. Having been divided into dyads with different levels of proficiency, these subjects participated in nine sessions of collaborative instruction based on the…