Describes how one English teacher developed a replacement for the traditional literature exam: student exhibitions. Defines these exhibitions as student presentations over course material in which expertise and close reading are demonstrated. Advocates allowing students the opportunity to teach class materials. (HB)

Studies the "The Treatise on Fishing with an Angle" from "The Book of Saint Albans" to determine how a 15th-century author approached the problem of writing accurate, technical prose on fishing. Shows how this old text shares many of the rhetorical strategies of modern technical writing. (HB)

Provides a comprehensive bibliography of recent articles and monographs related to the general issues of writing centers. (HB)

Notes that some students invent their own styles of poetry, and regularly use them in their writing. Recommends that teachers encourage this. Presents several examples of students' styles. (RS)

Discusses the difficulty of figuring out how to show (not tell) someone what a compelling vision of education might be. Makes predictions about how technology will affect the teaching of writing. Asks readers to formulate their own predictions. (RS)

Explores the idea that writing is a social act. Discusses four key fragments of a social theory of writing and some of the terms associated with them: that language is agonistic, epistemic, formative, and intertextual. Discusses pedagogical implications of these ideas for the postprocess writing classroom. (SR)

Discusses similarities among writing, texts, and containers. Claims that containerization is a central metaphor in composition studies. Argues that this metaphor constrains the way texts are understood and treated. Examines alternatives to the text-as-container metaphor. (HB)

Provides an edited transcript of an extensive interview with compositionist Gary A. Olson. Covers his background, his views on composition theory and practice, and a variety of other topics. (HB)

Supports the typological approach to education lauded by Charles Sides (in an article in the same issue of this journal) but cautions educators to beware of imposing on others their own type biases. Calls for a commitment to take seriously the unconscious side of the "psychological type" problem. (NH)

Describes briefly two projects of the National Writing Project (NWP) that encourage the incorporation of technology into NWP activities: the NWP/Polaroid Education Program Pilot Project and the "America's Smartest Home Videos" Awards Project. (SR)

Provides an account of the importance of story poems in the English classroom. Describes how one teacher wove the teaching of poems, stories, and writing into a single coherent unit of study. Argues that bringing these diverse materials together is a useful method of literary study. (HB)

Reviews and compares views of grammarians, usage experts, and authors of technical writing books concerning "dangling participles." Finds many unattached clauses are unacceptable, some are less objectionable, and still others are acceptable. Notes that cultural (and perhaps gender) differences between humanistic teachers and…

Provides a synthesis of what some of the popular and scholarly literature says about spirit. Narrates a writing-center story in which the writer's text served as a vehicle for a transformation of the people involved. Follows this with an analysis of the experience grounded in the literature on writing and spirit. (SR)

Interviews Stuart Hall, a black public intellectual and an activist of the New Left. Discusses the growing disillusionment with cultural studies now that it is no longer in its ascendancy; the proliferation of pedagogical practices given a cultural studies tag; Hall's approval of the use of popular culture in the composition classroom; and the…

Uses poetry and poetic prose to remind readers of the power of poetic language. Discusses the author's experience as a poet and her work with teachers to bring poetry into children's lives. (SR)