College English, Vol. 63, No. 4, March 2001

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• D. H. Lawrence and the Dialogical Principle: "The Strange Reality of Otherness"

  M. Elizabeth Sargent and Garry Watson

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  Abstract: Focuses on D. H. Lawrence and his being taken seriously as an original thinker. Notes that Lawrence is thought of primarily as a novelist. Suggests that readers should acknowledge Lawrence as an original thinker in an evolving history of the dialogical principle and in a continuing attempt to understand the dialogical and its political and ethical importance.

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• Media, Discourse, and the Public Sphere: Electronic Memorials to Diana, Princess of Wales

  Marguerite Helmers

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  Abstract: Addresses the hundreds of web sites devoted to the memory of Diana. Provides a thick description of the way in which people are writing and using the Internet in everyday life, with a special emphasis on the way in which this writing brings them into a public sphere. Concludes that hypermedia offers the immediate sense of audience and community.

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• Taking Dictation: The Emergence of Writing Programs and the Cultural Contradictions of Composition Teaching

  Donna Strickland

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  Abstract: Maps out two simultaneous and mutually reinforcing phenomena: (1) the material conditions that have given rise to hierarchically arranged writing programs; and (2) the attendant cultural values that have made possible the feminization as well as the racialization of composition teaching. Argues that writing programs have emerged by way of divisions in labor, separating mental labor from mechanical labor.

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• What Happens When Machines Read Our Students' Writing?

  Anne Herrington and Charles Moran

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  Abstract: Begins with a quick history of the English profession's response to the prospect/specter of the computer as reader of student writing. Describes two programs that are now being heavily marketed and publicized nationally. Sketches out some of the implications of these programs for members of the profession of English in America.

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• REVIEW: Why Teach Popular Culture?

  Bethany Ogdon

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• REVIEW: The Schoolmaster in the Bookshelf

  Geoffrey Sirc

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