College English, Vol. 48, No. 8, December 1986

Table of Contents

• Social Construction, Language, and the Authority of Knowledge: A Bibliographical Essay

  Kenneth A. Bruffee

• Opinion: A Polemical History of Freshman Composition in Our Time

  Dwight Purdy

• Poems

  Vern Rutsala / Peter Johnson / Rick Bailey / Jennifer Lagier / David Graham

• NCTE to You

• Intertextuality and the Cultural Text in Recent Semiotics

  Leonard Orr

• The Truth of the Thing: Nonfiction in Moby-Dick

  Betsy Hilbert

• Review: The Need to Go On Talking

  Walker Gibson

• Comment and Response

  Doug Brent / Phyllis Frus McCord; Gordon K. Thomas / Carolyn Matalene; Mary S. Comfort / Harvey S.Wiener; Anne Phillips

• Announcements

• Index

• From the Editors

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