Discusses how Bette Green carried out research for the preparation of her novel, "The Drowning of Stephan Jones." Speaks out against hate crimes against and the oppression of gay and lesbian youth. (HB)

Reports citation patterns for "The Journal of Business Communication" for the years 1978 to 1992. Investigates authorship trends, trends in intellectual content, and trends in the relationship between the journal and other journals. (SR)

Examines electronic full-text literature available on the World Wide Web and on CD-ROM. Discusses authors and genres, electronic texts, and fees. Highlights Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and nature writing. Provides a bibliography of Web guides, specialized Shakespeare pages, and pages dealing with the Shakespeare authorship debate and secondary…

Describes how a fourth-grade teacher uses a favorite picture book (Julius Lester's "John Henry") to lead students into reading like writers, thus giving them the opportunity to make the connection between published writing and their own. Shows how working with a brief passage from the book does this. Offers a brief list of books to be mentored by.…

Examines the attributes of picture books in subject matter, form, style, and media used by the artists as exemplified by winners of the Caldecott Medal over several decades. Discusses the changing styles of illustration brought on by technological advances. Announces the 1999 winners of major awards for children's books. (AEF)

Originally written in the 1950s, this article addresses the question of subdividing and grouping entries under a given author as a main entry that paved the way for the American Library Association's Catalog Code Revision of 1967. It also includes referee responses by Elaine Svenonius, Allyson Carlyle, and Michael Carpenter. (LRW)

Discusses, in poetic form, the writing of the play "Salvador" from the perspective of the author. Explains her thoughts about writing for children, including didactic relationships with children, didactic functions of art, and how adults teachers try to create a sterilized, lifeless, good-thinking, and artificial world for children when they are…

Used the PsycLIT database to study six methods of computing the scholarly productivity of authors. Findings for 323 counseling-psychology faculty indicate the advisability of using simple publication totals, because the psychometric properties of more labor-intensive methods are not known, and ethical guidelines for including coauthors are neither…

Discusses the use of women researchers' birth names or hyphenated birth and marriage names in professional publications. Examines publication policies which can inhibit dissemination of their published works as well as impact on tenure and promotion decision. Offers suggestions to improve indexing of their research. (MMU)

Offers a broad survey of the ways the World Wide Web has changed power relationships between academic authors and publishers. Argues that the emerging innovative methods of text distribution and attribution are challenging the way knowledge itself is produced and distributed within particular disciplines. Retheorizes the relationship between…

Presents an interview with author of young adult literature, Michael Cadnum. Discusses his poetry, audience, characters, disturbing themes, "big openings," use of myth, jobs and life events that contributed to his development as a writer, time it takes to write a book, novels based on real-life events, and forthcoming books. Includes a…

Highlights the career and work of James Stevenson, author and illustrator of children's books. Presents suggestions for extension activities. Includes a selected annotated bibliography of his picture books, titles from some of his series, autobiographical picture books, illustrations, poetry, and fiction, as well as books about James Stevenson.…

Explicates the statement, "Results of most non-traditional authorship studies are not universally accepted as definitive." Lists and discusses six problems associated with these studies, and suggests a similar number of solutions. Argues that future nontraditional attribution studies must be held to a higher standard of competency and…

Discusses the author's approach to writing nonfiction for adolescents and her experiences with reactions of young readers. Explains the value of real stories being told and read by adolescents. Supports the incorporation of nonfiction into the classroom. (SC)

Discusses the difficult and painstaking process of researching the lives of the writers of girls' school stories for "The Encyclopaedia of School Stories," published in the summer 2000. Notes that frequently, very little was known about the authors, and often existing information was inaccurate. Offers details of the encyclopaedia and…