English Journal, Vol. 74, No. 4, April 1985

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page

• News and the English Profession

• Facets: Grammatical Deviance in Advertising

  Alexander S. Frazier, C. Anne Webb, Greta D. Little, Scharlotte Saxon

• Making Connections: Academic Reform and Adolescents' Priorities

  Edmund J. Farrell

• Tunafish, Eddie R., and Writing for Real

  Tim Gillespie

• Three Approaches to Writing the First Poem

  William Robert Rodriguez

• The Sweet Smell of Success: Is It All in the Name?

  Ellen Harrison

• Haven Peck's Legacy in A Day No Pigs Would Die

  M. Kip Hartvigsen and Christen Brog Hartvigsen

• My Visit to Oz and How Bad Those There Want to Go Home

  Cory J. Eberhart

• On Living with Poetry

  Darwin L. Hayes

• Poetry in the Springtime

  Peter Norris

• A Regional-Ripple Approach to American Literature

  Gerald Haslam

• Antidote to Rejection

  Robert L. Tucker

• Secrets to Winning the Games Kids Play

  Carol Fuery

• Power and Progress: Themes in Fiction for a Technological Age

  Linda Wicher

• On Retirement

  Marion Alexander

• Using Gremlins to Teach Theme

  Charlotte Miller

• Our Readers Write: A Favorite Secondhand Bookstore

• Recommended: Evangeline Walton

  John Herman

• Too Good to Miss

  Ethel B. Schweitz

• Departments

• Writing for Teachers

  Rebecca Blevins Faery

• The Farfaring Imagination: Recent Fantasy and Science Fiction

  Beth and Ben Nelms

• First Measure the Sparkle

  Toni Sills

• Science Fiction on Film

  David Burmester

• Poem: Rehearsals

  Ellanor Brizendine

• Poem: I Saw an Old Acquaintance

  David Evans

• Poem: Things to Do While Listening to Commencement Platitudes

  Carolyn Estes

• Poem: ... an omnipotent & nervy thing to do ... for June Langford Berkley

  Marilee Lehman Pallant

• Poem: Naming of Nouns (With Apologies to Henry Reed)

  Ellen M. Shull

• NCTE to You

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