College Composition and Communication, Vol. 27, No. 3, October 1976

Table of Contents

• Diving In: An Introduction to Basic Writing

  Mina P. Shaughnessy

• Sexism in Language and Sex Differences in Language Usage: Which Is More Important?

  Carol Weiher

• The Language of Negotiation

  Joan Huddleston

• The Lord's Shout: Varieties of Pauline Rhetoric

  Dwight Hilliard Purdy

• When Is a Paragraph?

  Arthur A. Stern

• Plus Ca change . . .

  Ken C. Burrows

• Teaching Writing: Some Encounters

  Lawrence S. Owen

• Not Back to the Pedagogenic Basics

  Dale T. Adams

• Grading: Blessing, Bane, or Balderdash?

  John Rachal

• The Sense of Nonsense

  David Sif

• Cliches, Trite Sayings, Dead Metaphors, and Stale Figures of Speech in Composition Instruction

  Don L. F. Nilsen

• Staffroom Interchanges

• Jeu D'Esprit

• Counterstatement

• Secretary's Reports

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