Details the successes of Ernest Raymond's novel "Tell England." Includes reviews of the book and details of the author's life. Discusses the reason's for the enormous success of the book, Raymond's treatment of the relationship between the young men, and his treatment of their deaths. (PRA)

Discusses some of the ethical dilemmas faced by writers who prepare marketing materials in engineering organizations. Describes social, political, economic, and legal changes in the professions during the last 30 years and the growing influence of market-driven decisions on ethical decision making. (PRA)

A well-known author of novels for young adults talks about her own youth and her desire to be a writer. Supportive librarians, English teachers, and parents are mentioned as positive influences, and how she began writing specifically for young people is explained. (EAM)

Discusses structural differences between author-publication systems and journal-article systems, i.e., articles can have more than one author. Frequency functions are examined; and a new conceptual explanation of Lotka's Law, based on convolution theory, is proposed. (Contains eight references.) (LRW)

Provides a rationale for the information science community to consider the needs and challenges of spatial information issues as well as overviews of the seven articles on spatial information contained in this special topic issue. Brief biographies of the 16 authors are included. (six references) (KRN)

Introduces a series of eight articles that look at the intellectual or cognitive aspects of text and images from which researchers and system designers may derive new principles or refine those in use. Each article is briefly described, and background information on each author is provided. (KRN)

Examines the magic of the Peter Rabbit stories, and explores Beatrix Potter's life to understand her special gift as a writer and artist that brought her animal world so vividly to her readers. (SR)

Offers a preliminary retrospective on the achievement of Robert Westall, a distinctive and prolific voice in modern children's literature. (SR)

Reconsiders the modern classic "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig. Discusses three issues from the book that speak to the technical writer in particular: finding the proper perspective, using metaphoric writing, and avoiding gumption traps. (SR)

Discusses the differences between male and female utopian (and dystopian) writers. Notes that some male utopian and dystopian writers emphasize science and product, stressing social and political theories of class control and struggle, whereas some female utopian writers stress conservation, community, and collective action. (RS)

In this interview, author M. E. Kerr reflects on writing for young adults, including her inspiration, her characters, and the issues she incorporates into her works. (KRN)

Continues the process of questioning what is taken for granted in communication research and expanding the views of rhetorical processes. Explores how and where texts are created, and how texts interact with each other, especially in terms of "intertextual interanimation." (RS)

Looks at the benefits and the losses to consider when thinking about making the transition from writer to manager. (SR)

One professor's approach to developing a course on French writers of the revolutionary era is presented. The lecture/discussion/oral report course was taught entirely in French and included a variety of literary genres. The syllabus, weekly log of lecture/discussion topics, and a bibliography are appended. (LB)

Explains how an impulse to invite a well-known writer to dinner has led to an extraordinarily satisfying mentor relationship. Author describes her own dedication to writing, the frustrations she occasionally feels as a writer, and the formation of a writers group of published women writers. (NB)