English Journal, Vol. 65, No. 8, November 1976

Table of Contents

• Guest Editorial: Relax with Back-to-Basics

  Dwight L. Burton

• Viewpoint: "Who Do You Think You're Talking To?"-Trading Ideas for Insults in the English Profession

  Donald McQuade

• Mutterings: Basic Backwardness

  Charles Weingartner

• The Problem of Spelling

  Murray Howard

• In Their Own Words: An Interview with Barbara Wersba

  Paul Janeczko

• Why Newsweek Can't Tell Us Why Johnny Can't Write

  Suzette Haden Elgin

• Why Can't Johnny Write?

  Timothy J. Bergen, Jr.

• Why Johnny Can't and the Cat in the Hat: An Article in Two Parts

  Patricia Fox

• Stuttering Pencils

  Don Stoen

• Who Says Johnny Can't Write

  Robert P. Parker, Jr. and Leslie Meskin

• Teaching Ideas: Back-to-Basics: How to Talk to a Writer, or Forward to Fundamentals in Teaching Writing

  Robert Blake

• Tonawanda Middle School's New Writing Program

  Charles Cooper, with Nancie M. Atwell, Denise L. David, Rita C. Giglia, William J. Grobe, and Carol P. Locke

• Community-Based Resources for Teaching Composition

  Edward R. Fagan

• Non-Academic Students: The Stepchildren of Secondary Education

  Robert Kirk

• Teaching Materials: The Basics

  Carol Kuykendall

• Multi-Media: Basic Media Exercises

  Nancy Cromer Thompson

• ERIC/RCS Report: Notes and Quotes on Back to Basics

  Rodney J. Barth

• EJ Workshop

• For the Members

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