Volume 1.2, May 2001

Articles    
1. Holly Bauer
‘Gross Errors’ or ‘Good English’?: The Historical Legacy of California’s Writing Placement Exam
   
       
2.

Glen McClish
Two Strikes and You’re Out: The Impact of Executive Order #665 on Developmental Writing and Mathematics

   
       
3.

Ellen Quandahl
"Observable Objects": Assessing a Study of Instructors’ Grading

   
       
4. Carrie K. Wastal
Implementing the Master Plan: Undergraduate Writing Requirements and the Changing Face of California
   
       
5..
Jennifer Young
Bakhtin’s Polyphonic Novel and the Polyphonic Potential of David Mamet’s American Buffalo

   
       
6.. Chris Werry
The Rhetorical Self Fashioning of Technical Communication, 1984-1994

   
       


Reviews    
1.

Review of: Harris, Joseph; Jay Rosen & Gary Calpas (eds). Media Journal: Reading & Writing about Popular Culture. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1999.
Reviewed by Marnie Binfield.

   
       
2.

Review of Good Reasons, by Lester Faigley and Jack Selzer. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000 x+334pp.
Reviewed by Elaine L. Jones

   
       
3.

Review of Reading Culture: Context for Critical Reading and Writing, 4th ed., by Diana George and John Trimbur
Reviewed by Kimberly Norlund

   
       
4. Review of Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing,by Gary Colombo, Robert Cullen & Bonnie Lisle. Boston: Bedford/St Martins, 2001. Instructor's Edition.
Reviewed by Lisa Stahl

   
       
5.

Review of A World of Ideas by Lee A. Jacobus. Bedford/St. Martin's.
Reviewed by Adriano Vasco

   
       
6. Review of The St. Martin's Guide to Writing by Rise B. Axelrod and Charles Cooper. Boston/New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001. Reviewed by
Reviewed by Michelle Tucker