English Journal, Vol. 71, No. 6, October 1982

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page

• News and the English Profession

• Bait/Rebait: EQuality Project

  Anne Ruggles Gere and Michael J. Mendelsohn

• Competency Testing in English

  Robert E. Probst

• Reverse the Image: Involve the Public in Reading and Writing

  Raymond Stopper

• Back to Basics in Literature: Where and Why?

  Jack R. Sublette

• Roots

  Linda Shadiow

• Abscam in the Classroom, or Lessons from Washington

  Cecil W. Morris

• Preparing Students to Read

  Mary Ann Rygiel

• The Truth: A Basic for the 80s

  Rick Reeves

• After Basics

  Robert Liftig

• Irony in Steel: Nostalgia from the File

  Vivian Morgan Corll

• Speak Up! The Place of Speech in Any Curriculum

  Mary Langer Thompson

• The Road Test

  Marleen Barr

• So You Want to Buy a Microcomputer: A Guide to Purchasing

  Anne Auten

• Our Readers Write

• Recommended: Carson McCullers

  Patricia P. Kelly

• Too Good to Miss

  Doris M. Quick

• Departments

• Mirrors to See Ourselves: Publications from England, Australia, and Canada

  Roy Bentley

• Close Encounters of a Junior High Kind

  Janet Beyersdorfer

• Adolescent Literature: A Bridesmaid Once Again

  John A. Davis

• Getting the Most Out of Time Spent Marking Compositions

  George Hillocks, Jr.

• 1912 vs. 1982: A Heavyweight Match in Composition

  Joyce Armstrong Carroll

• New Short Films for the Classroom

  David Burmester

• Poem: Faculty Lounge

  Cindy Hoffman

• Poem: Educators' Conference

  Norma Walrath

• Poem: Douglas Stratford

  George Corwin Schmit

• Poem: I Stayed up 'till Five AM

  Sandra Harris

• Poem: In Compliance with Policy

  Linda Wyman

• Poem: Cycles

  Shirley R. Chafin

• Poem: Language

  Linda Einhorn

• NCTE to You

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