College English, Vol. 59, No. 4, April 1997

Table of Contents

• Sites and Senses of Writing in Nature

  Randall Roorda

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  Abstract: Reviews Linda Brodkey's prominent critique of the image of the solitary writer, and uses it as a means to examine the identity and behavior of the writer in nature. Uses various nature writers as exhibits, and speculates as to why Wendell Berry makes a distinction between "writer" and "creature."

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• Literacy in (Inter)Action

  Ellen L. Barton

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  Abstract: Examines the ways in which literacy functions in institutional encounters and focuses on the ways literacy interacts with power and authority. Examines the enactment of literacy in medical encounters. Finds that institutional encounters enacting the discourse system of American medicine reproduce power and dominance in fairly predictable ways.

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• Disciplinarity and Collaboration in the Sciences and Humanities

  Ronald Schleifer

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  Abstract: Examines the roles of collaboration in the sciences and humanities by focusing on the complicated relationship between syntax and semantics. Uses scholarship on the social study of science to discuss strategies for collaboration in the humanities. Discusses why those studying language and literature are in a particularly good position to understand the nature of intellectual collaboration and its benefits.

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• POEMS

  Lisa Russ Spaar, John Kennedy, Jeanne Emmons, Linda Bamber

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• REVIEW: Reflections on Pedagogical Study

  Suzie Jacobs

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• COMMENTS & RESPONSE: TWO FURTHER COMMENTS ON “TEACHING AND LEARNING AS A MAN”

  Cathleen Breidenbach, Kristie S. Fleckenstein / Robert J. Connors

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