Comments on the interview of Stephen Toulmin in the preceding issue of this journal. Critiques Toulmin's concepts regarding logical consensus and pluralism. Discusses various kinds of pluralisms. (HB)

Presents an interview with English professor and Pulitzer Prize Award winning poet Gary Snyder. Discusses his writing processes, journal writing, writing instruction, and writing evaluation. (SR)

Describes a duality pitting the writing center against the classroom. Considers the relationship between these two spaces. Argues that the writing center can provide an alternative to the authority of teachers and classrooms. Suggests strategies for minimizing tension between classroom and writing center. (HB)

Argues that if rhetoricians do not work to articulate rich techniques for invention in the education of technical writers, they inadvertently reinforce the myth of the technical writer as born scribe. Suggests that to articulate those techniques, rhetoricians must recognize and examine the expertise they have in interdisciplinary collaboration.…

Addresses the argument that private writing is not really private. Explores the role of empirical evidence. Offers arguments that acknowledge private writing as different from public or social writing. Discusses methods of researching private writing. (CR)

Argues that the discourse of emotion is the primary (earliest and foundational) education of compositionists. Focuses on the way violence addresses and educates emotion and inculcates an affective relation to the world. Considers the way in which some versions of radical pedagogy may actually work to remystify violence and mask their own…

Asks what it is that the audience wants. Suggests a reconceptualization of the rhetorical situation by re-engendering or transgendering the speaker/audience couple as "a hermaphrodite, as a con/fusion of Hermes, the god of messages, and Aphrodite, the goddess of love," as a way to invigorate rhetorical theory and current composition…

Looks at online writing centers and their multiple relations to cyber spaces and physical places, as well as to institutional and cultural practices. Notes proliferation of online writing centers, hybrid relations of online and offline writing centers, relation of online writing centers to classrooms, transforming space and practice in online…

Outlines three criteria that justify using passive voice. Claims teaching sentence focus--keeping the topic of the sentence in the subject position--will accomplish the end of teaching the appropriate uses of active and passive voice (NH)

Weighs claims for liberatory histories of rhetoric by using postcolonial perspectives to read debates on the status of sophistic rhetorical theories, the influence of Egypt on ancient Greece, and the value of classical rhetoric for the teaching of writing. (RS)

Depicts how any word chosen by chance can function as a magical word to exhume fields of memory and excite imagination. Details several word games of invention for children (such as the "fantastic binomial," using creative errors, and "Little Red Riding Hood in a Helicopter") that juxtapose normally unrelated words and that can…

Describes the creation of Worlds Fair, a project that evolved over several years from a sketchy short-story idea into a full-blown Web-based multimedia project with over 80 contributors, and proved to be an education in incorporating visual rhetoric into composition pedagogy. (SG)

Presents a highly philosophical view of silence from the literal sense extending to the idea of silencing voices. Considers reflection, meditation, and contemplation in regards to reading and writing. Discusses reflection and literacy, and reflection and learning. States that literacy is an interlace pattern of reflection in silence and activity…

Describes a graduate course in professional writing, examining the benefits of explicitly emphasizing writing instruction in graduate education programs. Discusses: the interpretation of grammar, style, logic, and voice; listening to and crafting writing; writing as method; audience awareness; becoming better readers of other people's writing; the…

Presents five brief descriptions from two-year college teachers of writing activities that they have found to work well in their classrooms. (SR)