Examines the changes in the successive attempts by E. B. White to complete the manuscript for "Charlotte's Web." (HOD)

Discusses the effectiveness of using author-supplied indexing to increase subject control in information retrieval, and describes a study which compared author indexing for articles published in "American Mathematical Society" journals to indexing of the same articles by an editor of "Mathematical Reviews." Nine references are…

Provides a sampling of several authors' points of view regarding the right of authors to remuneration for library lending. Many of the 19 references cited are letters to the author. (CHC)

This article reviews the development, since 1900, of Irish educational history, with particular attention to the views and contributions of four historians: Timothy Corcoran, P. J. Dowling, J. J. Auchmuty, and D. H. Akenson. (SJL)

A survey of the publishing habits of women in the "Journal of Counseling Psychology" found that women published at the end of the 1970s in proportion to the percentage of women who earned counseling psychology PhDs in the mid-1970s. Women published most often with men. (Author)

Suggestions for the preparation and development of manuscripts for scholarly journals are presented. Included are suggestions for generating ideas and a list of common reasons for rejection of articles. (JMF)

Examined the effectiveness of repertory grids in assessing cognitive complexity as a correlate of creativity. Literary personnel and audiovisual representatives completed grids. Significant differences were found between creative writers and their literary controls; the grids failed to discriminate between greater and lesser creativity in the…

The responsibilities of the alumni editor to the reader and to the author are discussed, and principles of good editing including how to edit interviews, convert speeches into articles, and edit class and club notes are covered. (JMF)

An illustrated sequential collection of written observations from twentieth-century publishers and professors responding to a young scholar with a manuscript on nineteenth-century British parodists (period titles added) is presented. (Author/MLW)

A poet relates her personal writing problems, which she resolved by completing some of the assignments she had used in her classes. (RL)

Presents a short biographical essay on Herbert E. Hawkes who died in 1943. Before becoming dean of Columbia College, he had published noteworthy textbooks on mathematics and had taught at Yale and Columbia. His educational and administrative policies are reviewed here. (BEF)

Describes a course in "Images of the Male in Women's Writing" and the contribution a man can make in teaching such a course. (DD)

Analyzes the questionnaire responses of 84 writers of letters to the editors of nondaily newspapers, which provided information on such areas as number of newspapers written to, topics addressed by the letters, reasons for writing letters, and writers' individual characteristics. (GT)

Chapter 4 of S. 22 requires that works bear a copyright notice, but greatly reduces the penalties for an incorrect or nonexisting notice. It also establishes an optional system of copyright registration. The 12 sections of Chapter 4 are discussed in depth and compared to the existing copyright law. (LBH)

Describes a dramatic way to record the words and expressions of living, but largely unresearched, journalists. (KS)