English Journal, Vol. 73, No. 5, September 1984

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page: A Grand Model and a Wonderful Friend

• News and the English Profession

• Facets: Developments in Teaching Composition

  Ann E. Berthoff, Donald M. Murray, Anne Ruggles Gere, Dan Kirby

• An Adjective Modifies a Noun

  Carolyn Mamchur

• Creating Contexts: Using the Research Paper to Teach Critical Thinking

  Diana George

• Sneaking Fun into Composition: News Writing

  Jody Hannon

• Variations on a Huckleberry Theme

  Chris Crowe

• Coherence in Writing

  Duane H. Roen

• The Process Approach Comes to Big-Time Football

  Hugh T. Smith

• English Teachers Will Write-with the Right Incentive

  Tom Handlen

• What High School Teachers Have to Say about Student Writing and Language across the Curriculum

  Trevor J. Gambell

• A Few Good Words for Cliches

  Hugh Rank

• Diary of a Mad Textbook Reviewer, or What I Learned about High School Composition Texts

  Robert Perrin

• Re-Visioning the Whole

  Joseph I. Tsujimoto

• Accordion Writing-Expository Composition with the Word Processor

  Jamieson McKenzie

• A Parable

  Suanne Huffman

• Tilting at Windbags: My Losing Battle with Business Jargon

  Kate Nelson

• Hot Tubs or Sentence Combining?

  Mack Patten

• Teaching English with Andy Rooney

  Lawrence W. Brown

• The Writing Center: Peer Tutoring in a Supportive Setting

  Harriet Marcus

• Polly Doesn't Want Just Another Cracker

  Jo Etta Alwood

• Composition through the Team Approach

  Patricia Kelly, Mary Pat Hall, Robert C. Small, Jr.

• I'd Rather Not Deal with This, but

  Mark Lulek

• Understanding Fiction through Writing It

  S. Carl Hirsch

• Learning to Write: A History of Boxes, Plain and Neat

  Dale Lumley

• Why Abraham Lincoln Flunked Freshman Comp or "Abe! This Essay Is Written on an Envelope!"

  Gary Giannelli

• Our Readers Write: A Good Gimmick for Teaching Mechanics

• Recommended: Margaret Drabble

  Marie Collett

• Too Good to Miss

  Jerry Beth Shannon

• Departments

• Teaching Writing: Beyond the Textbook

  Patricia Kelly

• You Talk Like a Thesaurus

  Lida Askew

• Other Times, Other Places

  Ben and Beth Nelms

• Prime Time Teacher

  Patrick Andriani

• Poem: Marginal Writer

  Steve Lyle

• Poem: The State of the Art

  D. L. Emblen

• Poem: Poet in Residence

• Poem: Variation Up-Date: I / Variation Up-Date: II

  Sr. Helena Brand

• Poem: Ugly Eva

  Deanna Tressin

• Poem: The Writing Group

  Patricia A. Bilby

• Poem: In Defense of Holden Caulfield: Censored for Being Obscene

  Gerald Mackey

• Poem: Last Rites

  Deborah Couch

• Poem: School I / School II

  Rich Quatrone

• Poem: The Vocabulary Test

  Ellen G. Cowne

• Poem: Dungeons and Dragons (To Brion)

  Jayne R. Smith

• Poem: Right Brain

  Shirley Nunes

• Poem: Lit. II-Ist Hour

  Joy McCleary

• Poem: A Quest, I Guess

  Charles Hannah

• Poem: Merlin Was an Adjective: He Modified Things

  David Austin

• Poem: To Her Persistent Master

  Robert M. Lanza

• Poem: R.S.V.P.

  Margaret Cusack

• NCTE to You

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