English Journal, Vol. 76, No. 1, January 1987

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page

• News and the English Profession

• Facets: Promising Research

  John Whitehurst, Betty Jane Wagner, Katherine Whitten, Mike Greenwood and David Bucknell

• Josephine Turck Baker, Correct English, and the Ancestry of Pop Grammar

  Christopher Gould

• Frankly, My Dear

  Linda Williams Post

• The VCR: Raiders as a Teaching Tool

  David L. Farmer

• Popular Culture and English

  Hilary Taylor Holbrook

• The Next Episode: Soap Operas as a Bridge to Improved Verbal Skills

  Robert E. Moss

• Expression of Thanks

  Paul Farmer

• A Follow-up to Pop Culture: The Unpopular Culture

  Richard Whitworth

• Deconstructing Citizen Kane

  Sarah Myers McGinty

• Composition and Popular Culture: From Mindless Consumers to Critical Writers

  Veleda Boyd and Marilyn Robitaille

• Rural America in Film and Literature

  Joyce Dyer

• If Bach Had Owned a Computer: Technology and Teaching the Novel

  Jay Boyer

• Rx for the Suicide Epidemic

  Donna-Marie Stupple

• Everly's Laws of the Effect of Empirical Information on Educational Curriculum Reform

  Pamela Ann Everly

• From Oral Communication Skills to Research Skills

  John T. Scenters-Zapico

• Recommended: Quintilian

  Erik Wessler

• Too Good to Miss

  Kristine Marshall

• Departments

• Learning to Learn

  Patricia P. Kelly

• Non-Readers Are Made, Not Born: 16 Ways to Turn off a Reader

  Beverly Claunch and Patricia Nutt

• Peer Review in the English Classroom

  Marylin J. Nelson

• Popular Culture: The Fifties, Hollywood and Horror Films, Art and the Old West

  Carole Cox

• Mauve Washers: Sex Differences in Freshman Writing

  Catherine M. Lynch and Mary Strauss-Noll

• Poem: recognition for an English teacher's son

  Joel Brouwer II, student

• Poem: Improper Punctuation

  Cindy S. Henderson

• Poem: Lesson Plan

  Janet Johnston

• Poem: Room 25

  Toni L. Levine

• NCTE toYou

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