English Journal, Vol. 75, No. 4, April 1986

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page

• News and the English Profession

• Facets: Humor and Sarcasm

  Victor H. Kryston, Mary R.Smith, Sharon M. Collins, Marla G. Hamilton

• Bringing Appalachia to Northeastern Ohio

  Joyce Coyne Dyer

• Images of Love: From Lawyer to an English Teacher

  John Forsyth

• Making Sense: What Happens When You Read?

  Melvin G. Williams

• Publish and Perish: A Writer Learns a New Version of an Old Cliche

  David E. Wilson

• Gordon D. Shirreffs: An Interview with a Western Writer

  Carole Shirreffs Cox

• Archetype and Irony in The Natural

  Ronald K. Giles

• Punchlines as Paradigms

  Nick Otten

• Raiders of the Latest Art: American Treasure Trove

  Mary Jo May

• The Language of Advertising vs. Standard English

  Robert G. Wyckham

• Guidelines for Writing Assignments in the Content Areas

  Allan Dittmer

• What Do You Know about Embroidery, Herman Prynne?-or the Unisexing of American Literature

  Louis Phillips

• Our Readers Write: Recommended Summer Reading

• Recommended: H. P. Lovecraft

  Lanny van Allen

• Too Good to Miss

  Don Melichar

• Departments

• Measurement and Evaluation

  Leila Christenbury and Mary Ann Rygiel

• Sound Collages in Poetry

  Marylin J. Nelson

• Some of My Favorite Books Are by Young Adult Authors and Some Are by Jane Austen

  Robert C. Small

• Teaching Film as Literature: Places in the HeartTo Kill a Mockingbird

  Estelle Aycock

• New MECC Products

  Bruce Appleby, Joel Goldstein, Kathleen Fish-Gilbert, Greg Johnson

• We Were Teaching, but Was Anyone Learning?

  Billie Cox

• Poem: Island Belle

  Kay Meier

• Poem: To a Writter

  Emily Auerbach

• Poem: Shuttle-shock

  Carol Schanche

• Poem: Writing a Poem

  Mary Ellen Jesson

• NCTE to You

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