Presents an interview with Jonathan Miller, medical doctor, actor, stage director, and documentary film producer. (RS)

Presents an interview with Amy Tan. Reveals how she became a writer and discusses her views on teachers of writing, about the book "The Joy Luck Club," about autobiography and fiction, and about writing and rewriting or the creative process itself. (NH)

Describes how the Prep Editor can be used to support online collaborative editing. Discusses and illustrates how the Prep Editor interface allows student teams to extract the claimed and unclaimed work of each member and how this information can support a team's further decision making. (RS)

Explains why technical communicators should help translators. Offers tips for creating "translation-friendly" documentation. Describes the research and design process used by the authors to create an online tutorial that provides technical communicators at a medical technology company the information they need to help them write and…

Discusses the somatic mind, a permeable materiality in which mind and body resolve into a single entity which is (re)formed by the constantly shifting boundaries of discursive and corporeal intertextualities. Addresses its importance in composition studies. Critiques the poststructuralist disregard of corporeality. (CR)

Examines young children's ability to vary the forms of emergent writing as they wrote a story, a shopping list, and a letter to a friend at three different times during the school year. Finds that children apply their emergent knowledge about written language differently. Indicates a considerable mismatch between written products and knowledge of…

Examines how the author's work in nursing has helped reveal, through poetry, her own "key images" (images that unconsciously bring life, energy, and universality to a poet's work). Suggests ways writers might encourage intense personal imagery to enter their own poems or the poems of their students. (SR)

This interview with author Will Hobbs, who has written books for young adults as well as picture books, discusses his writing process; writing historical novels; books that influenced him; other influences on his writing; and his message for readers. (LRW)

Interviews Brian Pinkney, award-winning writer and illustrator of over 20 children's books. Discusses: how his illustrative process in working with scratchboard has evolved over the years; the writing process; the illustrating process; and his collaborations with his author/wife, Andrea Davis Pinkney. (SR)

Suggests that, although the benefits of word processing are widely acknowledged, writing is still perceived as a difficult activity. Considers the degree to which particular features of word processing might constitute new and significant impediments to individual writers. Discusses this issue with writers who expressed concerns that their…

Surveys professional editors (who work with publishing companies and magazines with national and international circulations) concerning advice to students on how writers write. Finds four main themes: (1) plan and organize carefully; (2) revise your work thoughtfully; (3) use words purposefully; and (4) correct errors thoroughly. (RS)

Notes that literacy today involves more than the three R's. Uses a semiotic approach to present a rhetorical model of multimedia communication and its elements. Includes an analysis of the multimedia composition process and its rhetorical features. (RS)

Compares two "bad boys" of adolescent literature: Chris Lynch and Adam Rapp. Notes the biggest distinction between them--Lynch writes about adolescents coached into violence, while Rapp writes about naively innocent adolescents caught in violent and emotionally isolated places. Suggests both authors believe it is possible to follow characters…

Presents an interview with Carolyn See, author of "The Rest Is Done with Mirrors,""Rhine Maidens,""Mothers, Daughters," and "Golden Days," among other novels. Shows how See is able to get inside the souls of her characters even as she maintains an analytical perspective. (TB)

Explores some of the possibilities of writing that the author realized from working with women writers and describes how, as a result of this work, she has revised her thinking about writing and the teaching of writing. (RS)