English Journal, Vol. 75, No. 2, February 1986

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page

• News and the English Profession

• Facets: English Teachers and Computers

  Peter L. Bleau, Cheryl Ratts, Priscilla Cunningham, Carol Dreyer Yeazell

• "I Love It! It's Your Best Book!"

  Norma Fox Mazer

• Mythological Messages in "The A-Team"

  Neil Anderson

• Philosophy as Literature: A Step beyond Convention

  Michael H. Marchal

• Poetic Licenses

  Margaret Fleming and Duane H. Roen

• Writing for Natural Purposes

  Philip L. Rhea

• Responding to Student Writing: The Consequences of Some Common Remarks

  Robert W. Blake and Anna Lunn

• On Teaching Vietnam War Literature

  Perry Oldham

• Helping the Problem Speller without Suppressing the Writer

  Elizabeth Grubgeld

• Guide for Parents on Writing Their Child's First Term Paper: A Letter

  Nancy T. Ganyard

• The Censoring of "The Lottery"

  Bill Brown, Peter Yost, Eyal Press, Liz Sacheli, and Edward Park

• Responding to Poetry: High School Students Read Poetry

  Robert W. Blake and Anna Lunn

• Virginia Woolf's "The Legacy"

  Ann Lavine

• Bombs Away

  Thomas S. Hull

• Plagiarism in High School: A Survey

  Doris R. Dant

• In Search of the Female Hero: Juliet Revisited

  Fran Norris Scoble

• A Writing Teacher Writes about Writing Teachers Writing (about Writing)

  Harvey Kail

• Our Readers Write: Worst/Funniest Pedagogese

• Recommended: Shirley Ann Grau

  Clair Schulz

• Too Good to Miss

  Alice Denham and Robert E. Shutes

• Departments

• Catching Up on Composition

  John W. Swope

• W.E.E.D.-Writing Essays Every Day (A Guide for the Overburdened English Teacher)

  Ken Mitchell

• Just Like Everybody Else: Portraits in YA Fiction

  Beth Nelms and Ben Nelms

• Let's Stop Playing the Computer Con Game

  Anne Harker Dayton

• NCTE Teacher Researchers

  Dan Donlan

• Poem: Home

  Marnelle R. White

• Poems

  Joan Mellard/Joy McCleary/Jean Cothary

• Poems

  Gerry Foote/Beverly Baker/Roberta Young

• Poem: Students Writing

  Vic Kryston

• Poem: Circling David For Melissa Green, my student

  Frank Cacciutto

• Poem: Back to School

  Marylou Kelly Streznewski

• Poem: poem lessons

  John Samuel Tieman

• Poem: Morning Ritual

  Janet Peavler

• NCTE to You

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