English Journal, Vol. 73, No. 1, January 1984

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page: Booting into the Computer Age

• News and the English Profession

• Facets: Tenure Law vs. Merit Pay

  Larry von Hake, Gretchen Schwarz, Philip C. Lawton, Julie E. Dodd

• Avoiding Mental Meltdown-A Victim's Reflections

  James O. Weeks

• The Computer-Based Writing Program from Load to Print

  Raymond J. Rodrigues

• High Tech and the Modern English Department: A Crisis in the Making

  Gerard Brooker

• What Can a Computer Do for Me That I Am Not Already Doing?

  Carolyn Ann Curtice

• Process and Processor: Is There Room for a Machine in the English Classroom?

  Gail G. Womble

• MTV and Video Music: A New Tool for the English Teacher

  Susan Latta

• To Make You See: The Art of Film in the English Class

  August Franza

• Computer Language--Literacy or Litter

  Allan Dittmer

• Shooting for a Judy Award: A Documentary on Beginning Filmmakers

• The Manipulator

  Nancy S. Thompson and Dottie Crawford

• Developing Critical Thinking through Media Study

  Lorraine J. Lewis

• Computers in English: How and Why

  Anne Auten

• Wanted: Software by English Teachers

  Lee Mountain

• Video-English

  Patrick B. Mikulec

• A Writing Teacher's Shopping and Reading List for Software

  Ellen K. Leahy

• Short Films Revisited

  David Burmester

• Psychology, Technology, and Poetry

  Robert A. Shaw

• Our Readers Write: Teaching about Language Manipulation

• Recommended: P. G. Wodehouse

  Mary Jane Kneen

• Too Good to Miss

  Dorothy Fritz

• Departments

• A New Era in Reading

  Mary Hoover

• Turning Reluctant Readers into Lifetime Readers

  Judy Beckman

• To Start the New Year off Right

  Dick Abrahamson

• Why Would Computer Whiz Kids Turn to Crime

  Everett B. Young

• Poem: A Teacher's Immortality

  Shirley R. Chafin

• Poem: "Freeing the Figure from Stone"

  Anne Lundin

• Poem: Stopping by Splices on a Typical Evening

  David J. Thomas

• NCTE to You

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