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)

Defines young-adult literature and the problems of writing novels for young-adults. Discusses rites of passage in adolescent literature, narration, and societal lore. (PRA)

Denounces the treatment of Ronald Takaki's "Strangers from a Different Shore" by members of the Association of Asian American Studies who criticized it on grounds of scholarly ethics. (DM)

Shares excerpts from an interview with George Ella Lyon who is a poet, playwright, teacher, and author of both adult and children's books. (MG)

Interviews Andrea Lunsford and Lisa Ede, coauthors of "Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing." Discusses their research findings, their own history of writing together, and collaboration as a subversive activity. (SR)

Interviews practicing scientist and essayist Stephen Jay Gould about his essay writing. (SR)

Explores the collaborative learning partnership between science fiction writer Robert Heinlein and his wife Virginia. Shows how Virginia's self-directed learning projects complemented and enabled Robert's writing. (SK)

Describes an interview with children's author Karen Hesse, discussing such things as how she chose writing as a career, her use of figurative language and her skillful crafting of dialog, where her book ideas come from, and her latest projects. (SR)

Describes how writer and artist Chris Raschka creates children's books that transcend their silent, static medium to skip and sing their way into the hearts of children. Discusses Raschka's background as an artist and writer, as well as a bit of history about his "seemingly simple" style. (SR)

This experiment searches an online library catalog employing author surnames, plus one or two title words of books in citations of eight scholarly works whose authors selected the title words as being recallable. Results of searches yielded a single-screen miniature catalog (minicat) 99% of the time. (Author/LRW)

Discusses how an author of books for children and young adults writes historical fiction and historical nonfiction. Explains how authenticity is achieved, by fictionalizing historical events for a novel and by dramatizing historical events for nonfiction. Gives examples and discusses similarities with archaeology. (LRW)

Describes the American Library Association (ALA) Convention in New Orleans from a teen's perspective, particularly the Intellectual Freedom Teen Panel. Topics include barriers to information, including Internet filters; censoring and the First Amendment; and general impressions of the convention, including meeting authors. Sidebar includes notes…