JAC Volume 9

Editor:
Gary A. Olson

Volume 9, Issue #1, 1989

Interview

• Social Construction and Composition Theory: A Conversation with Richard Rorty
  Gary A. Olson

Articles

• Genders of Writing
  David Bleich
• Ties That Bind: Ancient Epistolography and Modern Business Communication
  John Hagge
• Some Difficulties with Collaborative Learning
  David W. Smit
• Applying Martin Greenman's Concept of Insight to Composition Theory
  Rosemary L. Gates
• The Legacy of Positivism in Empirical Composition Research
  Carol Berkenkotter
• Another Competing Theory of Process: The Student's
  Kate Ronald and Jon Volkmer
• Purpose and Composition Theory: Issues in the Research
  Nancy Roundy Blyler
• Narrative Topic and the Contemporary Science Essay: A Lesson from Loren Eiseley's Notebooks
  Joseph J. Comprone
• Preoccupations: Private Writing and Advanced Composition
  Susan Hilligoss
• "Shades of Deeper Meaning": On Writing Autobiography
  Mary Jane Dickerson
• Fictional Scenarios and Rhetorical Specification in Writing Tasks: A Cautionary Note
  Roger D. Cherry
• School-Sponsored and Self-Sponsored at the Same Time
  Marilyn Sternglass
• Advanced Composition and the Computerized Library
  Christine Hult

Reviews

• The Art of Reasoning by David Kelley
  Joseph Williams
• Politics of Letters by Richard Ohmann
  John Clifford
• Freire for the Classroom: A Sourcebook for Liberatory Teaching by Ira Shor, ed.
  John Schilb
• The Contemporary Writing Curriculum: Rehearsing, Composing, and Valuing by Roland Huff and Charles R. Kline Jr.
  Ginny Pompei Jones
• The Word for Teaching is Learning: Essays for James Britton by Martin Lightfoot and Nancy Martin, eds.
  Richard C. Gebhardt
• Teaching Prose: A Guide for Writing Writing Instructors by Fredrick V. Bogel and Katherine K. Gottschalk, eds.
  Andrea Lunsford
• The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook, 2nd ed. by Gary Tate and Edward P. J. Corbett, eds.
  Judith Summerfield
• Rhetoric in the Classical Tradition by Winifred Bryan Horner
  William A. Covino
• The Making of Knowledge in Composition: Portrait of an Emerging Field by Stephen M. North
  Karen I. Spear
• Composition Research: Empirical Designs by Janice M Lauer and J. William Asher
  Carol Berkenkotter