College English, Vol. 39, No. 8, April 1978

Table of Contents

• The Dead Letter Office: Composition Teaching and "The Writing Crisis"

  David W. Hill

• Teaching Composition in a New Elizabethan Age: "An excellent Phantsie, brave notions, and gentle Expressions"

  Michael T. Joyce

• Psychological Variants of Success: Four In-D)epth Case Studies of Freshmen in a Composition Course

  Bill Linn

• Texts and Teaching: Basic Writing

  Lewis Meyers

• Teaching Writing: Beginning with the Word

  Mary Scott Simpson

• Poems, reprinted from earlier issues

• The Portfolio System: An End to Backsliding Writing Standards

  James E. Ford & Gregory Larkin

• Rewriting Is a Waste of Time

  Barbara Hansen

• An English Party

  Florri McMillan

• The New Segregation: A Recent History of EOP at the University of Colorado, Boulder

  Elissa S. Guralnick

• Elegy in an Urban Classroom

  Nikki Stiller

• Stories Out of Eden: Reorganizing Naming as Rhetorical Strategy

  Victor A. Laruccia

• A Students' Conquest of Literary Criticism

  Paul Shelton

• NCTE For the Members

• Index to Volume 39

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