English Journal, Vol. 73, No. 2, February 1984

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page: Seven Wonders of Our Profession

• News and the English Profession

• Facets: Essay Contests

  Elizabeth R. Frank, Jan Booth, Irene D. Hays, Charlene Eblen

• The New Literacy: Television, Purveyor of Modern Myth

  Harold M. Foster

• An Editor's Evolution

  Carol Schanche

• Fathers and Sons

  Harry Arthur Gordon, Jr.

• Graduation Speakers: Excellent Academic P.R.

  Patricia A. Wasley

• Them As Can Should Do

  Ruth Michaud

• What's Talking When We're Listening or Do People Listen... To Other People?

  Chuck Yerger

• Religion in the Classroom II

  J. H. Boal, Randall J. Heeres, Frances R. Poston, Keith A. Blanding

• Orwell Was Wrong

  Kent L. Koppelman

• Writing and Literature

  Ted Hipple

• School-Wide Writing Instruction

  R. Baird Shuman

• The Fly

  Ellen Stratton

• We Are Copycats

• What's Wrong with "What I Did on My Summer Vacation"

  Dean R. Baldwin

• Making Small Groups Work: Controversy Is the Key

  Elizabeth A. Kahn, Carolyn Calhoun Walter, Larry R. Johannessen

• Yes, Teaching Grammar Does Help

  Robert de Beaugrande

• Bring in the Authors!

  Valeria Hitt

• The Resource Paper, Again

  Gracemarie Campbell

• Our Audience Is Real

  Mary Kollar and Rick Monroe

• The Evolution of a Course in Women's Studies

  Marion Grammer

• On English Teachers-And Other Strange and Wondrous Creatures

  Kathy O'Keefe

• Everybody Knows They Can Do It Better

  Gomer James

• Business Writing Where It Counts

  John Hennelly

• Our Readers Write: A Gimmick to Help Kids Write

• Recommended: Booth Tarkington

  Ruth Ann Gerrard

• Too Good to Miss

  Margaret Grove Ferry

• Departments

• Calling All Word Buffs, Word Addicts, Wordaholics, Word Freaks, and Verbivores!

  Marjorie Kaiser

• Picture Books in the Classroom: The Secret Weapon for the Creative Teacher

  Judy Beckman and Joan Diamond

• "I wish you'd read!" the Teacher Sighed

  Dick Abrahamson and Carol Pope

• Short Stories on Film

  David Burmester

• Poem: Please Pass This Note

  Christine Swanberg

• Poem: The Third Circle (from Dante), Or, the student smoking area between classes

  L.F. O'Brien

• Poem: Certain Knowledge

  June Berkley

• Poem: you sure don't look like a poet

  Kayla L. McClurg

• Poem: To My Muse

  Bill Keeney

• Poem: Ideas

  Marilyn Kahl

• NCTE to You

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