College English, Vol. 38, No. 5, January 1977

Table of Contents

• Editorial

• Literacy, the Basics, and All That Jazz

  Thomas J. Farrell

• Fractions Make My Head Hurt

  Elizabeth Wooten Cowan

• The Decline in Students' Writing Skills

  Daniel J. Dieterich

• Poem: The Crusade Against Awkwardness

  Sydney Lea

• Outhouses, Weather Chanlges, and the Return to Basics in English Education

  Jim W. Corder

• Writing and the Values of the Young

  Lee Merrill

• Helping Writers to Think

  Suzanne E. Jacobs & Adela B. Karliner

• Improving Student Writing: A Case History

  Elissa S. Guralnick & Paul M. Levitt

• Poems

  Yusef Komunyakaa, Elizabeth Spires, Paula Rankin, & Louis Hasley

• Comment & Response

  Fred W. Ramey/Kathryn Hume; George A. Test/Neil Schaeffer; Thomas A. Sawyer

• NCTE For the Members

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