Explains how a teacher, concerned about women's issues, learns to trust her own sense of things while at the same time examines knowledge available to her externally. Contains a first-person introduction and a third-person story about how a teacher will deal with a school mandate to teach Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea." (TB)

Describes a successful school visit by a children's author. Provides advice on expenses and fundraising, planning activities, and the "big day." (RS)

Presents an author's frustrations with poor editing in the form of advice from an editor who has been edited. Discusses deciding what to change, grammar and style, and knowing the audience and the author. (RS)

Students can learn to understand prose by carefully listening to the author's voice. The paper gives examples of prose in standard block form and in a poetic form, explaining why students find the poetic form more comprehensible. Students' awareness of rhetoric can be developed through the Myers Briggs inventory. (SM)

Offers the author's (a noted writer of children's novels and picture books) personal theories about mixing mirth and mayhem. (SR)

Lists and discusses briefly six "jumpstarters" for writers, intended to "rev them up and keep them going." (SR)

Discusses a bulletin board that highlights authors' birthdays and children's birthdays for each month of the year, and related classroom activities that get students excited about authors and about reading. (SR)

Reviews "Author's Insights" (edited by Don Gallo) in which 12 distinguished writers of young-adult books have their say about how literature and writing ought to be taught in secondary schools. (SR)

Presents transcript of an interview with Robert Cormier, winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for authors of books for young adults. Various aspects of Cormier's works are discussed, including realism; characterization; the darker themes that he uses and their origins; the influence of Catholicism; and censorship. (LRW)

Relates the author's personal experiences growing up with and writing science fiction. Discusses symbols that work themselves out in the writing of science fiction. (PRA)

Explores what it feels like for a science fiction writer to have reality alone to hold the reader's interest. Discusses the author's novels "Interstellar Pig" and "Spirit Houses," the influence of the Thai culture on the second work, and the influence of the Thai culture on the author's ideas about fantasy and science fiction.…

Explores a textbook writer's feelings on the publisher's remaindering of his book. Follows with the writer's responses to comments and queries sent to him over the past year. (PRA)

Provides memoirs of the late composition theorist James A. Berlin by four friends and colleagues: Janice M. Lauer, John Trimbur, Debra L. Jacobs, and Lester Faigley. Includes personal information about Berlin as a teacher, father, and friend along with comments about Berlin's contributions to the field of writing theory and praxis. (HB)

Examined women authors in nine major social work journals published from 1982 to 1991. Found that women as first or only authors contributed 48.5% of 3,483 articles: 26.8% of articles were authored by 1 woman, 10.8% were authored collaboratively by women, and 10.9% had women listed as first author in collaboration with men. (NB)

Reviews and recommends nine books by Gary Paulsen, an author who writes for teenagers. (PRA)