An author's school visits can be, to a degree, part of an author's workplace depending on how many visits an author undertakes during a year. From the perspective of an author, the visits need to be fulfilling in terms of feeling valued and respected. From the school's point of view, it would appear that the visit is deemed a success if the author…

This paper examines the life and works of Meridel LeSueur, a colleague of Kenneth Burke, and herself a radical writer during the 1920s and 1930s. The paper states that LeSueur's primary aim was to establish an indigenous working-class culture to support working-class action. It notes that her arguments about writing build upon the rhetorical…

Author described his late father's contributions to education and especially his father's impact on the thousands of students he helped train to become teachers. (Author/RK)

This article examined what Scrutiny had to say about education up to the early war years of the 1940s and how Scrutiny reacted to the early post-war years during which the Labour Party was in power and were taking the first steps to implement the Education Act of 1944. (Author/RK)

Excessive emphasis on faculty publishing may add prestige to an institution while damaging other areas of faculty responsibility and opportunity essential to real institutional stature. (Editor)

This investigation shows that search keys derived from personal author names possess a sufficient degree of distinctness to be employed in an efficient computerized interactive index to a file of MARC II catalog records having 167,745 personal author entries. (8 references) (Author)

The author discusses a visit Saul Bellow paid to his class on the contemporary American novel. (MM)

Presents Black literature historically through four phases: Early Literature, The Negro Awakening, Major Authors, and Contemporary Literature. (MM)

In teaching children's literature to university students, the author illustrates how Doris Gates' Blue Willow'' becomes an important work in moving from myth and folklore to realistic fiction. (MM)

Presents and analyzes the results of the annual ATA survey of plays selected for college production. (RN)

According to the results of a survey, the women's movement has made editors more conscious of and responsive to the problems of women in a sexist society. The uncertainty of the market for composition texts has made them acutely aware of the needs and desires of those who choose the texts. (Author/NL)

Author suggests biographical information as an effective means of increasing student appreciation of poems written by authors of older periods. (Editor/NL)