Penning the 3 AM Thoughts: What Students Say about Writing Personally in English Class

This article features student perspectives on the role of personal writing in English class. Key findings and quotations are shared from two in-depth interviews with students who wrote exceptional personal essays as part of a narrative nonfiction unit in a 10th grade English class. Participants reported that writing personally generated more investment than a traditional academic assignment, controlling the level of sharing was key to being able to write honestly and openly, and mentor texts and writers’ notebooks were key tools which empowered their successful writing.     

Those wild Irish bulls

The article analyzes the language, goals, and strategies of several of the leading rhetors, organizations, and rhetorical events of both the reformist and revolutionary branches of the Women's Liberation Movement. It is organized around this five‐stage structure of a movement: State I: Genesis and Impetus, Stage II: Action and Reaction, Stage III: Conversion and Change, Stage IV: Revision and Solidification, and Stage V: Success and Silence. It explains how the Movement has progressed to Stage III and suggests what will probably have to occur for the Movement to transcend into its fourth and fifth stages.     

Defining and Assessing Spiritual Health: A Comparative Study Among 13- to 15-Year-Old Pupils Attending Secular Schools,Anglican Schools,and Private Christian Schools in England and Wales

This article argues that the nation's commitment to young people involves proper concern for their physical health, their psychological health, and their spiritual health. In this context the notion of spiritual health is clarified by a critique of John Fisher's model of spiritual health. Fisher developed a relational model of spiritual health, which defines good spiritual health in terms of an individual's relationship to four domains: the personal, the communal, the environmental, and the transcendental. In the present analysis, we make comparisons between pupils educated in three types of schools: publicly funded schools without religious foundation, publicly funded schools with an Anglican foundation, and new independent Christian schools (not publicly funded). Our findings draw attention to significant differences in the levels of spiritual health experienced by pupils within these three types of schools.     

Impacts of “Perestroyka”and the FSU economic crisis upon communication in FSU science: A study of the life sciences

Surveys of scientists' communication behaviours were carried out in a variety of institutions engaged in life science research within the former Soviet Union (FSU). The surveys followed the methodology developed by Garvey and Griffith and used in a variety of studies of information flows in various disciplines within the United States.¹ The outcome was a contemporary overview of communication practices which showed, as expected, the devastating effects of the current economic plight of the FSU. It also reveals contrasts between the academy-institute structure of the FSU and more entrepreneurial independent university structure of the West. An extremely important result was the discovery of the extent and ingenuity of cooperative relationships with western scientists to sustain continuing scientific work in the FSU. These were initiated under perestroyka and are now proving essential. The present findings are being used, as a practical matter, to guide and information VINITI policy in furnishing information services to the FSU.     

Journalistic and other Media Writing Guides

John Hohenberg's The Professional Journalist (New York: Holt, Rinehart CI Jinston, 1978—price not given)

Griffith, John L., and Edward G. Weston. Programmed Newswriting (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978—$4.50, paper)

Blanche G., and Wayne A. Danielson. Programmed News Style (Prentice Hall, 1978—$4.98, paper)

Lee, Robert, and Robert Misiorowski, Script Models: A Handbook for the Media Writer (New York: Hastings House, 1978—$8.95/4.50)

Hall, Mark W. Broadcast Journalism: An. Introduction to News Writing (New York: Hastings House, 1978—$7.95/4.95)

Bolch, Judith, and Kay Miller. Investigative and In-Depth Reporting (New York: Hastings House, 1978—$9.50)

Williams, Paul N. Investigative Reporting and Editing (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1978—price not given)

Kelley, Jerome E. Magazine Writing Today (Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest, 1978—$9.95)

Nelson, Roy Paul. Articles and Features (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1978—price not given)

Pearsall, Thomas E., and Donald H. Cunningham, How to Write for the World of Work (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston l978—price not given),

Mills, Gordon H., and John A. Walker, Technical Writing (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1978—price not given)     

Factors contributing to the retention of natural mentors among underrepresented students across the first year of college

The current study examined characteristics of natural mentoring relationships (NMRs; i.e. mentoring relationships that develop organically with adults in one’s pre-existing social network) among underrepresented college students as contributors to NMR retention across the first year of college. The sample consisted of 209 underrepresented college students (73% female; mean age = 18.1, SD = .35) who reported having a natural mentor during the first semester of college. Each participant could report up to five natural mentors and a total of 550 NMRs were reported. We found that more frequent contact and greater relational closeness with natural mentors during the Fall semester of mentees’ first year of college increased the likelihood that NMRs were retained through the Spring semester of the first year. These findings shed light on aspects of NMRs that may be most central to fostering their duration during difficult transitional spaces.