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WOE 1:1 (Fall 1989)

• An Interview with Toby Fulwiler: "The Mechanism is Writing" - Eric James Schroeder
• In the Zones: Hypertext and the Politics of Interpretation - Stuart Moulthrop
• The Modern Value of Ancient Roman Methods of Teaching Writing, with Answers to Twelve Current Fallacies - James Murphy
• An Interview with Michael Herr: "We've All Been There" - Eric James Schroeder
• Undergraduate Creative Writing: The Unexamined Ostrom
• Leadership in College Writing Groups - Robert Brooke, Tom O'Connor, and Ruth Mirtz
• New Lamps for Old: A Reevaluating of Technical - Elizabeth R. Turpin
• An Interview with Oliver Sacks - Dale Flynn and Susan Palo

WOE 1:2 (Spring 1990)

• An Interview with Mike Rose: "Imagine a Writing Program" - Susan Palo
• Psychological Types and Teaching Writing - Charles H. Sides
• Who Knows How the Wind Blows: Cognitive Styles in (and Outside) the Classroom - Lori Ann Miller
• Love in the Classroom - Al Zolynas
• The Work of Life: Teaching Technical Writing as a Subversive Activity - Warren. W. Werner
• MAD - Jerome Stern
• Vygotsky, Werner, and English Composition: Paradigms for Thinking and Writing - Karen K. Jambeck ~ Barbara D. Winder
• Untitled - Molly Giles
• An Interview with Amy Tan: Fiction-"The Beast that Roams" - Emory Davis
  

WOE 2:1 (Fall 1990)

• An Interview with Richard Lanham: Learning by Going Along - Carolyn Handa and Gretchen Flesher
• The Ethical Complexity of Collaboration - Thomas Trzyna and Margaret Batschelet
• Throwing Our Voices: The Effects of Academic Discourse on Personal Voice - Susan Wyche-Smith and Shirley K Rose
• An Interview with Richard Selzer: Rituals of Writing - Dale Flynn
• Beyond Mastery: Postmodern College Composition - Clara Juncker
• Priest on Priest - Robert Grudin
• Why I Take Good Care of my Macintosh - Gary Snyder
• An Interview with Gary Snyder: "Language is Wild" - Donald Johns

WOE 2:2 (Spring 1991)

• An Interview with Andrea Lunsford and Lisa Ede: Collaboration as a Subversive Activity - Alice H. Calderonello, Donna B. Nelson, and Sue C. Simmons
• Collaborative Classrooms: Building a Community of Writers - Sharon Hamilton-Wieler
• An Interview with Larry Heinemann: "Novels Are More Polite…" - Eric James Schroeder
• Plain Language from a Postmodernist Professor - Jane Bowers
• Having Submitted the Manuscript… - Robert Grudin
• Slaves of the Word - Clark Brown
• An Interview with Stephen Jay Gould: "This View of Writing" - Jared Haynes
• Writing on the Hypertextual Edge - Stuart Moulthrop
• Notes for Izme Pass ExposŽ - Carolyn Guyer and Martha Petry
• The Shapes of WOE - Jay David Bolter
• "Trying to See the Garden": Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Hypertext Use in Composition Instruction - Johndan Johnson-Eilola

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WOE 3:1 (Fall 1991)

• An Interview with Linda Flower: Helping Writers Build Mansions with More Rooms - Jill Wilson
• Social Constructionist Composition and the Hunger of Imagination - William B. Lalicker
• Students Writing An Essay Exam - Frances Ruhlen McConnel
• A Writer's Potpourri - Peter R. Stillman
• From the Photograph to the Written Text: Writing as Translation - Ann C. Colley
• The Skull Beneath the Skin - Virginia Allen
• An Interview with Calvin Trillin: "I'll Just Go and Fix It" - John Boe
  

WOE 3:2 (Spring 1992)

• Dialectical Notions: An Interview with James Berlin - Brian A. Connery and Van E. Hillard
• No Breaks, No Time-Outs, and No Place to Hide: A Writing Lab Journal - Margrethe Ahlschwede
• Don't Do This: A Short Guide to What Not to Do - Jerome Stern
• "Nous, Nous Ensemble": Orality and Group-Directedness Shaping Written Discourse - Thomas R. Moore
• Textual Androgyny, the Rhetoric of the Essay, and the Politics of Identity in Composition (or The Struggle to be Girly-Man in a World of Gladiator Pumpitude) - Paul Heilker
• Ink/Pixel : Rewriting Self-Construction, Briefly - Joe Amato
• The Biorhythms of a Writer: An Interview with Perri Klass - Dale Flynn
  

WOE 4:1 (Fall 1992)

• An Interview with Peter Elbow: "Going in Two Directions at Once" - John Boe and Eric Schroeder
• Reclaiming Our History: Theodore Baird and English 1-2 at Amherst College, 1938-1966 - Robin Varnum
• Spider Teaching - Chris Miller
• Spilt Religion: Student Motivation and Values-Based Writing - Janice Neuleib
• Reading Without Seeing: The Process of Holistic Scoring - Mary Louise Buley-Meissner
• An Interview with Cynthia Selfe: "Nomadic Feminist Cyborg Guerilla" - Carolyn Handa
• A Feel for Prose: Interstitial Links and the Contours of Hypertext - Michael Joyce
• Informand and Rhetoric: A Hypertextual Experiment - Stuart Moulthrop
• On Achieving Tenure - Jim Whearty
• An Interview with Roger Angell: "They Look Easy, But They're Hard" - Jared Haynes
  

WOE 4:2 (Spring 1993)

• An Interview with Donald Murray: "Mucking about in Language I Save my Soul" - Driek Zirinsky
• The Writer as Holy Fool: A Virtue of Stupidity - Tony Jasmowski
• Performing John Cage's 4'33" in the Freshman Composition Classroom - David Starkey
• Primal Sympathy - Meredith Sabini
• Take Nothing for Granted - Terry Caesar
• Collaborative Learning: How Well Does It Work - Margaret Tebo-Messina
• Collaboration in Practice - Chris Anson, Laura Brady, and Marion Larson
• Two Things Converged - Emory Davis
• Giving Blood - Meredith Sabini
• A Rhetoric of Hypertextual Invention- Thomas Hager
• The god with lightning feet - Meredith Sabini
• Crossing the Lines: On Creative Composition and Composing Creative Writing - Wendy Bishop
• Role-Playing and the Interstitial Person: An Interview with Jonathan Miller - Dale Bachman Flynn
  
  

WOE 5:1 (Fall 1993)

• "The Takeaway": An Interview with Joseph Williams and Gregory Colomb - Donald Johns
• Liberty of Ideas: Renaissance Copia and the Nature of Free Thought - Robert Grudin
• Hamlet - Charles Hood
• F-R-E-E-D-O-M-C-O-M-P-U-T-E-R - Nancy Dunlop
• "The Ancient Mariner Experience": An Interview with Margaret Atwood - James McElroy
• Writer's Block: Guest Column - Lawrence B. Coleman
• The Shape of Fact - Wendy Bishop
• Initiating - Charles Stanion
• Arrival - Jo Ann Heydron
• Like No Other Woman: "Isabella" and the Politics of Violence - Angela Farkas
• Writing About Lives on the Edge: An Interview with William Finnegan - Ellen Lange
  

WOE 5:2 (Spring 1994)

• From the Senior Editor - Eric Schroeder
• "James J. Murphy," an illustration - Victor Ichioka
• "Setting Minds in Motion": An Interview with James J. Murphy - Mardena Creek
• Over the Edge: When Reviewers Collide - Christine A. Hult
• A Preface on Rejection - Donald M. Murray
• Pushing the Edge - Donald M. Murray
• The Second Motion of the Mind: Reviewing, Mentoring, Judgment, and Generosity - Elizabeth Rankin
• Lip-Synching With Your Dog - Bonnie Auslander
• "Radical Pedagogy": An Interview with Patricia Bizzell - Sidney I. Dobrin and Todd Taylor
• Meeting the Eye: Form and Function in Student Writing - Anne J. Mullin
• Lessons in Life - Dawn Dreyer
• Paradise Reclaimed: Or, How I Grew Up Through English - Sharon Flitterman-King
• Ad Hoc - Susan R. Blau
• "The Size and Shape of the Canvas": An Interview with John McPhee - Jared Haynes
  

WOE 6:1 (Fall/Winter 1994-95)

• "Individualize": An Interview with James Moffett - Eric Schroeder & John Boe
• The Junk That's in Us: Revisiting William Stafford - Margrethe Ahlschwede
• Begin by Beginning Again - Katharine Haake
• "Words and Pictures Together": An Interview with Art Spiegelman - Susan Jacobowitz
• Harvest - Peter Najarian
• Trial by Fury - David Shields
• "The Power to Create for Oneself": An Interview with Peter Carey - Nick Birns
• The Silence of the Lambs, the Roar of the Lions - Stephanie Moss
• The Interrupted Life - Binney Paik
• "The Size and Shape of the Canvas": An Interview with John McPhee (Part 2) - Jared Haynes
• "Something Magic in the Storytelling": An Interview with Isabel Allende - Jan Goggans
  

WOE 6:2 (Spring/Summer 95)

• "Writing Is Motivated Participation": An Interview with Charles Bazerman - Margaret Eldred
• Rhetoric Where (As Always) Rhetoric Counts: Reading Judicial Decisions in the Writing Class - Claudia Ingram
• Writing Down the Songs: Teaching Conflicts in Music and English - Bruce Horner
• Reconciling Writing in Academic and Workplace Settings - LeeAnne Kryder
• Reflections across the Divide: Written Discourse as a Structural Mirror in Teaching Science to Nonscience Students - Judith A. Swan
• Questions and Answers - Dennis Hall
• An Absence of Hypochondria: Memoirs of the Physically Ill, the Handicapped, and Their Caretakers - Karen Wunsch
• Encounters with the Human Heart: An Interview with John Stone - Dale Bachman Flynn
  

WOE 7:1 (Fall/Winter 95-96)

• From the Editor: ETS, the Great Satan - John Boe
• "I Just Love It": An Interview with Carolyn See - Jan Goggans
• The Fifth Business: Typography & the Act of Reading - Cheryl Forbes
• A Poem Speaks for Itself - Robert Grudin
• Writer's Block: Guest Column - Peter Elbow
• Claiming the Baby - Jeanne Whitehouse
• The Shaming Game: Composition Pedagogy and Emotion - Kristi Yager
• Response to "The Shaming Game: Composition Pedagogy and Emotion" - William Coles
• Saying Good-bye to Section 1485, or Why I Hate Teaching Advanced Composition - Kevin Davis
• Collaboration, Consensus, and Dissoi Logoi - Kerri K. Morris and Dana Gulling Mead
• What's Up, Doc? or Professor and Student Q and A - Tom May
• The Dead Guy - Devan Cook
• " Take Risks Yourself": An Interview with Wendy Bishop and Gerald Locklin - Davis Starkey

WOE 7:2 (Spring/Summer 96)

• From the Editor: The Lovers - John Boe
• "Changing Habits of Thinking": An Interview with Joseph Harris - Thomas West
• Book Buyers, Book Cellars - Joseph Mills
• An All-Too Familiar Paradox - Michelle Gibson
• There Are Miracles Extant in This World - William Snyder Jr
• From Journals to Essays: Reading, Writing, Re-Thinking - Devan Cook
• The Poetics of Remembering - Eli Goldblatt
• Gathering Material - Jack Mathews
• What's Up on Monday Morning? TA Training and Freshman English - Margaret Baker Graham and Carol David
• A Poem Speaks for Itself - Robert Grudin
• Driving into the Heart of Henry Giroux's Pedagogy - Keith Rhodes
• "As Truthful as Possible": An Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston - Eric Schroeder

WOE 8:1(Fall/Winter 1996-1997)

• From the Editor - John Boe
• Interview Redux: An Intraview with Stephen M. North - Steve North
• On Not Teaching; or, Confessions of a New Writing Program Administrator - Paul Heilker
• Writer's Block: Guest Column - Gary Olsongenerous
• measures - Gary Lundy
• “Stand and Deliver” Meets “Dead Poets Society” - Michael Steinberg
• The Assignment - David Lee Hutchins
• Out of the Depths: Academic Writers on Rejection - Michael Munley
• Money, Class, and Curriculum: A Freshman Composition Reading Unit - Jason P. Mitchell
• Four Poems - Darrell Fike
• Fear - William Snyder, Jr.
• “All Narrators are Unreliable”: An Interview with Pam Houston - Jan Goggans
  

WOE 8:2 (Spring/Summer 1997)

• From the Editor: Queen Mina - John Boe
• “Every Difference Will Be Used Against Us”: An Interview with Ira Shor - Andrea Greenbaum
• Style Is Not Irrelevant: Finding its Place in the Nonfiction Classroom - Becky Bradway
• Comings of Age in Rhetorica, Poetica, and Pedagogia - Doug Hesse
• Poesis: Making Papers - Richard Lloyd-Jones
• Four Poems - Rick Kempa
• What the River Says: Narrative in the Composition Class - Philip Brady
• A Day in the Life of Half of Rumpelstiltskin (First Prize Winner, Italo Calvino Writing Contest) - Kevin Brockmeier
• A Brief Reading of Pollack’s Lavender Mist (Second Prize Winner, Italo Calvino Writing Contest) - Dennis Vannatta
• The Grammarian Visits Zeno (Third Prize Winner, Italo Calvino Writing Contest) - Ben Miller
• My Next Last Novel: An Interview with John Barth - Pamela Major
• Two Abstracts - Joan Hawthorne and Kip Strasma

WOE 9:1 (Fall/Winter 97/98)

• From the Editor: Staying on the Surface - John Boe
• "A Little Bit of Your Soul in It": An Interview with Donald Knuth - John Boe
• Collage: Your Cheatin' Art - Peter Elbow
• Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography - Eli Goldblatt
• The Dickie Story - Jim Gorman
• My Uncle's Guns - Ann E. Green
• Voices Sacred and Profane - Chris W. Gallagher
• Word Play: A Series of Incantations, Meditations, and Exhalations (Poems That Keep Growing through the Cracks of Conference Proposals) - gw rasberry
• Behind the Scenes of Writing: A Conversation with Min-zhan Lu - Anis Bawarshi and Mary Jo Reiff

WOE 9:2 (Spring/Summer 98)

• From the Editor - John Boe
• An Interview with Walter Nash: "Incertitude's Her Element" - David Stacey
• The Advocate Speaks in Defense of the Poem's Rights - Richard Hague
• Beyond Linearity - Robert L. Root
• Why I Teach Autobiography - Mimi Schwartz
• Writing Blue Berries: Once More to My Summer Vacation - Lynn Z. Bloom
• A Lesson in Alternate Style, or Thirteen Ways of Reading the Waccamaw River - Alys Culhane
• Schooling Misery: The Ominous Threat and the Eminent Promise of the Popular Reader - Richard Miller
• Widow's Head - Martha Gies
• Straddling the Rhet Comp/Creative Writing Schism - Andy Crockett.
• Imagining a Life: An Interview with Clarence Major - Margaret Eldred
• Writer's Block: Guest Column - Steve North

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WOE 10:1 (Fall/Winter 98/99)

• From the Editor: The Music of Words - John Boe
• "Stop Being So Coherent": An Interview with David Bartholomae - John Boe & Eric Schroeder
• Grammar Test: A Personal Look at the Problem(s) - Wendy Bishop
• Paper, Trees, Fire - Paul Dresman
• Four Poems - Liz Ahl
• Boy of Envelopes - Doyle Wesley Walls
• Genre Mixing, Popular Media, and the Evolution of the Academic Paper: One Writing Teacher's Response - Randall Popken
• Incubating the Expert Persona: Theory and Practice for Enhancing Academic Literacy - Ronda Leathers Dively
• Tillie Olsen-"I Came to Writing": An Oral History - Pamela Major

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WOE 10 :2 and Volume 11 :1 (Spring/Summer 1999 and Fall/Winter 2000)

• Introduction - Peter Elbow
• Re-Starting a Writing Life: Building a Home without a Bulldozer - Emily Isaacs
• Tulips - Joyce Greenberg Lott
• Night Class - David Franke
• Teaching Writing at Ground Zero - Rachelle M. Smith
• Counting Ladybugs - Krista Brumberg Stevens
• Melissa Quits School - Lucile Burt
• Motorcyle Dreams - Emily J. Wilson-Orzechowski
• Writing: The Interpreter of Desires - Robert Eddy
• Jasmine - Jennifer Shaff
• The Compositionist - Stephen K. Tollefson
• Pulling Toward Heaven - Jessica Barksdale Inclan
• Year 2000 - Jerry Blitefield
• A Day in the Life - Gregory Shafer
• Two Journal Excerpts - Susan Johnson
• From My Teaching Journal - Ella Kusnetz
• Death, Desire, and Teaching Frankenstein in Fresno - Ruth Y. Jenkins
• Relationships - Katharine Mastrantonio
• What Caleb Taught Me - Eve Gerken
• Your Life - Eleanor Berry
• And Then You Can Care for All Things - Kalyana Miller
• The Myth of Right Answers: Two Short Math - Kevin Davis
• Daughter/Student: The Too Personal Essay - Mary E. Heidorn
• "Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?" A Nontraditional Woman Writes to Read - Rita Eastburg
• Call Me: the Story of Moby Dick - Martine L. de Vos
• Boys of the Sixties, Men of the Seventies - Bernard Horn
• One Mean Bad Kid - Nancy McCabe
• Teaching Writing: "True Poems" - Libby Falk Jones
• Pepito-the One Who Slipped Away - Susan Hunt
• Hearing with the Heart: Listening to Vernon - Vicki Flucard Smith

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WOE 11:2 (Spring/Summer 00)

• From the Editor: Why Can't Americans Write English? - John Boe
• "A Nest of Singing Rhetorical Birds": An Interview with Walker Gibson - Margaret M. Strain
• Vietnam Voices, or Uncle Ho meets Country Joe (and the Fish) - Peter Caulfield
• If This Were Not a Collage: A Collage - Chris W. Gallagher
• Crimes of Writing: Refiguring "Proper" Discursive Practices - Lisa W. Ede & Andrea Abernethy Lunsford
• Memory as Travel: The Role of Story in Cultural Resistance and Cultural Change - Stuart Ching
• this (writing, and the production value of time) - Craig Greenman
• Why I Study Spanish - Pauline Uchmanowicz
• "A Sense of Professional Well Being": An Interview with Charles Moran - Margaret M. Strain

WOE 12.1 (Fall/Winter 01)

• From the Editor: Creative Nonfiction -John Boe
• An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson -Amy Clarke
• Writing Literary Memoir: Are We Obliged to Tell the Real Truth? -Michael Steinberg
• Why Don't You Collage That? -Robert Root
• Who Am I in this Story? The Power of Voice in Creative Nonfiction -Mimi Schwartz
• Toward a Personal Ethics of Telling -Jenny Spinner
• Running Roughshod: An Ethical Dilemma in Creative Nonfiction -Sondra Perl
• The Disarming Seduction of Stories -Pat C. Hoy II
• Textual Power, Textual Guilt: Telling (Other People's) True Stories -Lynn Z. Bloom
• You Were Cupid -Robin M. Carstensen
• Two Haiku -Andrew S. Delfino
• Teaching Writing as an Amoral Act -Stephen K. Tollefson
• Humbly Submitted: A Tale of First Book Publication -Peter Donahue
• My First Book -Mather Schneider
• Playing by Different Rules: "Gender Switching" and Critical Pedagogy -Amy M. Ward
• A Good Place? -William W. Graham
• A Response to "A Good Place?" -Peter Y Sussman
• Imagining Stories: An Interview with Nancy Welch -Fred Santiago Arroyo and Alice Gillam
• And Featuring Writer's Block cartoons - Tim Flower

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WOE 12:2 (Spring/Summer 01)

• From the Editor: Theodore Roethke on Teaching - John Boe
• "Once More to the Essay": An Interview with Lynn Z. Bloom - Jenny Spinner
• Requiem for the Outline - Pat C. Hoy II
• Three Poems - Ann Hudson
• Missing Link: Metacognition and the Necessity of Poetry in the Composition Classroom - Valerie Mart’nez
• The Imperfect - Liz Ahl
• The Workshop Elf - Marvin Diogenes
• Four Poems - Hans Ostrom
• Western Rhetoric and Plagiarism: Gatekeeping for an English-Only International Academia - Eric Prochaska 65
• The Empowerment of Laughter and the Language of Community - Tarez Samra Graban 81
• "A Strange Hodgepodge": An Interview with Oliver Sacks - Dale Bachman Flynn 85

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WOE 13.1 (Fall 02)

• From the Editor: The Limitations of Language - John Boe
• "Failure is the Way We Learn": An Interview with William E. Coles - John Boe and Eric Schroeder
• The Journal as Doorway to the Inward Landscape: A Meditation on Writing and Place - Mike Heller
• Letter to My Students - Paul M. Puccio
• Lesson - Sarah E. Skwire
• What's Love Got to Do with It?-A Correspondence - Wendy Bishop and Kevin Davis
• The Trouble with Teenages - Denise Abercrombie
• It Doesn't Work for Me: A Critique of the Workshop Approach to Teaching Poetry Writing and a Suggestions for Revision - Tom C. Hunley
• Verb Lesson - Beth Paulsson
• "Something Beyond Meaning": The Poet's Problem in Freshman Composition - Paul Allen
• Skyline: September 12, 2001 - Janine DeBaise
• On the Breath of Dawn: Served by Literacy - Margrethe Ahlschwede
• "Theodore Baird" - Peter Najarian
• "Try to Establish a Conversation": An Oral History - Theodore Baird

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WOE 13:2 (Spring 03)

• From the Editors: The Ethics of Representation - Robert Brooke and Amy Goodburn
• Barter - Kate Brooke
• The Ethics of Research and the CCCC Ethical Guidelines: An Electronic Interview with Ellen Cushman and Peter Mortensen - Robert Brooke and Amy Goodburn
• Ethics in a Postmodern Age: Lapsing into Legalism - Janis E. Haswell
• Informed Dissent: Beyond IRB Ethics in Research - David Wallace
• Presenting and Mispresenting Students: Constructing an Ethic of Representation in Composition Studies - Lulu C. H. Sun
• The Ethics of Researching Composition Students and Their Work - Carra Leah Hood
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Ethical Principles for (Re)Presenting Students and Student Writing in Teachers' Publications - Lynn Z. Bloom
• Editing Dialogics: Ethical Issues Concerning Student Contributors in Edited Collections - John Paul Tassoni and Gail Tayko
• Ethics and Agency in WPA Space - Suellynn Duffy

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WOE 14:1 (Fall 03)

• From the Editor: Noise from the Writing Center and Educating EsmŽ - John Boe
• An Interview with Donald Murray: "Lose Yourself" (plus Murray interviews Murray) - John Boe and Janet Marting
• Three Poems - Leonard Orr
• Student Pieties and Pedagogical Hot Spots: Mediating Faith-Based Topics in First-Year Composition - Jan Worth
• Two Poems - Anne Coray
• A Dinosaur in My Pocket: Lessons for Teaching at a Women's Shelter - Anjali Nerlekar and Jill Zasadny
• Try This Journal - Richard Arnold
• Little People (Winner of the 2002 Donald Murray Award) - Jonathan Pitts
• The First Day - Janis Greve
• Out of and Back Into the Box: Redefining Essays and Options - Melissa A. Goldthwaite
• An Interview with Anne Fadiman:"I Feel Like a Cleaning Lady" - John Boe and Eric Schroeder

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WOE 14:2 (Spring 04)

• Remembering Wendy -
• "I Have Fun Playing with Language": An Interview with Keith Gilyard - Sharon James McGee
• White Field, Black Sheep - Daiva Markelis
• Three Poems - Tom Hunley
• Auto/graphing: Wheels, Writing, and Work - Peter Vandenberg
• Two Poems - Todd Heldt
• The Three C's: Composition, Cancer, and Chemotherapy - Michael Mattison
• The Psychological Consequences of Reading Student Texts - John Rouse and Gordon Pradl
• Another Fine Mess: the Pregnant Body and the Discipleof the Line - Elizabeth Birmingham
• "Ideas Stream By": An Interview with John McPhee - Jared Hayes
  

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WOE 15:1 (Fall 04)

• From the Editor -
• Highlights from Ken Macrorie's Curriculum Vitae -
• An Interview with Ken Macrorie: "Arrangements for Truthtelling" - John Boe and Eric Schroeder
• Ken Macrorie's Commitment and the Need for What's Wild - Peter Elbow
• A Piano Lesson with Macrorie - Peter Stillman 24
• Macrorie's Gifts - Ed Darling
• Words and Things:A Tribute to Ken Macrorie - Thomas Newkirk
• Still Uptaught After All These Years - Chris Burnham
• Ken Macrorie and the 1970s Bust Out - Miles Myers
• The Truth and the Tower - Patricia McGonegal
• Too Many Books - Michael Spooner
• Gator Bait: On Teaching, Writing, and Growing Up on the Bayou - Elizabeth Boquet
• The Guy It Happens To - Rob Schnelle
• Snapshots of an Academic Daughter, Daughter-in-law, Mother - Stephanie Vanderslice
• My Writing Can't - Marcia RenŽe Goodman
• Tractors, Cactus and Exotic Pets - Martin Scott
• "This Electrifying Moment": An Interview with Anna Deavere Smith - J. Chris Westgate 101

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WOE 15:2 (Spring 05)

• An Interview with Wayne Booth: "Covering Almost All of Life" - John Boe
• Content in Composition Studies:Four Ways of Discussing a Difficult Subject - Patricia Donahue, Judith Goleman, Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori, and James Seitz
• Teaching Content in Composition - Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori
• Historicizing the Form/Content Split in Composition Studies - Judith Goleman
• Content and the Composition Curriculum - James E. Seitz
• Content (and Discontent) in Composition Studies - Patricia Donahue
• Tainted Love? - Joseph Mills
• Close Exegesis Becomes Jesus - Dale Rigby
• Cut Out the Mother - Christine Hemp
• Two Poems - Cynthia Nichols
• Making 4Cs Matter More - Claude Hurlbert, Derek Owens, and Robert Yagelski
• An Interview with Susan Orlean: "The Nature of the Curious Mind" - John Boe

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WOE 16:1 (Fall 05)

• From the Editor - John Boe
• An Interview with Roger Sale: “Covering Almost All of Life” - John Boe
• Homesick - Luz DeLeon
• In the Beginning Was the Word: Teaching Pre-College English at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility - Frances Biscoglio
• Ten Stories I Never Heard in Grad School - Paul Handstedt
• This is It - Eli Goldblatt
• Up to the Bottom: Reflections of a Working-Class Writing Instructor - Nick Tingle
• Imperative Vigilance - Lisa Lebduska
• Pounding Humility into my Head: Can Awful Drumming Lead to Better Teaching? - Mark Peters
• Teacher, Time to Go - Dustin Beale Smith
• “Life Is Dangerous”: An Interview with Alan Lightman - Cassandra Atherton

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WOE 16:2 (Spring 06)

• From the Editor - John Boe
• “Some Kind of Creative Pulse”: An Interview with Frank Kermode - Nicolas Birns and John Boe
• Incorporeal Transformations: The Power of Audience for Women Writing in Prison - Tom Kerr
• Models of Authority: So the Spell Cannot Be Broken - Fred Arroyo
• Unwanted Magazine Subscriptions: The Anatomy of an Argument - Alys Culhane
• The Route to the Top - Eve Lamborn
• Lorraine's Story - Brian Goedde
• A Double Life - Robert L. Root Jr.
• “The Things You remember”: An Interview with James Salter - Ed Kahn and John Boe
• The Last Word -

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WOE 17:1 (Fall 06)

• From the Editor - John Boe
• “I Want to Rip Your Heart Out”: An Interview with Pat Hoy - Mel Livatino
• In the Name of the Father: Self Naming in the Face of Institutional Patriarchy - Elise Geraghty
• Jessica, Who Has No Last Name - Lynnell Edwards
• The Mommy in the Classroom - Beth Ann Fennelly
• How I Learned - Megan Sullivan
• But Why, Annie Dillard? - Rochelle Harris.
• “It's All Storytelling”: An Interview with Michael Pollan - Pamela Demory
• The Last Word -

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WOE 17:2 (Spring 07)

• From the Editor: Donald Murray Speaks! - John Boe
• Donald Murray Remembered -
• An Interview with Harold Bloom: "Deep Subjectivity" - Cassandra Atherton
• Lookin‘ for Fame at the 4Cs Convention - Mel Livatino
• A Response to Professor Livatino - George Hillocks, Jr.
• A Response to “Lookin‘ for Fame at the 4Cs Convention” - Jenny Spinner
• Livatino Replies to Spinner -
• In Quest of Accuracy about the 4Cs Convention - Doug Hess
• Livatino Replies to Hesse -
• One Draft at a Time: the Rewards of Process - Dustin Beall Smith
• On Reading Standardized Essay Exams - H. K. Hummel
• An Interview with Toni Morrison: “Thinking about a Story.” - Jennifer Hoofard
• The Last Word -

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WOE 18:1 (Fall 07)

• From the Editor - John Boe
• "Where Meaning and Being Gathers": An Interview with Claude Hurlbert - Krystia Nora, Roseanne Gatto, Dawn Fels, and Elizabeth Campbell
• The Nonfiction Motive - Robert L. Root, Jr.
• Teaching Composition, Writing Creative Nonfiction: A Personal Narrative - Michael Steinberg
• Making It New with Orlean - John Boe
• Title: See Below pp. 1-2 - M. Elizabeth Sargent
• Eighteen and Forty - Paula Lambert
• Forming Oneself on the Page - Marcia Renée Goodman
• That Kind of Person - Brian Sutton
• An Interview with Dana Gioia: “Tradition is a Romance” - Cassandra Atherton
• Book Reviews - Thomas Allbaugh and Margaret Eldred
• The Last Word -

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WOE 18:2 (Spring 08)

• From the Editor: Big Woids - John Boe
• “The Life of the Imagination Goes on Everywhere”: An Interview with Stephen Greenblatt - Cassandra Atherton
• How We Talk When We Talk About “Us”: Academic Rhetoric and the Erasure of Small Schools - Paul Hanstedt
• Making It Up As I Go - Sarah Hardison O’Connor
• An Outpost of Fiction - Michael Wright
• A Five-Paragraph Defense of the Five-Paragraph Essay - Kurt Schick
• Three Poems - Hans Ostrom
• An Interview with Ngugi wa Thiong’o: “Writers Are Possessed” - Jayetta Slawson
• “Some Rememberings”: Grace Paley at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility - Jane Maher
• Requiem for Part-Timers - Michelle Barany
• A Plan for All Seasons: Reflections of a Writing Tutor - Rebecca Bell
• Finding Words - Jaqueline McLeod Rogers
• “When the Unexpected and the Cool Coincide”: An Interview with John Lescroart - Chris Thaiss
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WOE 19:1 (Fall 08)

• From the Editor: Wallace Stegner's On Teaching and Writing Fiction - John Boe
• On the Teaching of Creative Writing - Wallace Stegner
• Why Murray Matters - Lad Tobin
• Murray and the Process of Internal Revision: A Think Piece - Donna Qualley
• Our Mornings with Murray - Bruce Ballenger
• Donald Murray and the “Other Self” - Thomas Newkirk
• Poetry Stand - Douglas Goetsch
• Confidence for Terrified Hearts: Concerto for Orchestra and Writing Center - Kevin M. Davis
• The Good Essay - Abby Rabinowitz
• A Tale of Two Workshops - Way Jeng
• Listen to This - Lisa Roney
• "Something Beyond Storytelling”: An Interview with Nuala O’Faolain - Jane Maher
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WOE 19:2 (Spring 09)

• From the Editor: Reading Imaginary Words - John Boe
• "You Have to Find Balance": An Interview with Tracy Kidder - David Masiel.
  
• On Procrastination - John Perry
• Audience of One - Jennifer Sinor
• Academic - John Yohe
• B All the Way - Celia Bland
• “It’s Musical and It's Beautiful”: An Interview with Diane Wakoski - Jason Wirtz
• Becoming the Loon: Performance Pedagogy and Female Masculinity - Stacey Waite
• Why I Write - Sarah Fielding
• Coming Apart and Falling Together: Teaching from the Sidelines - Lois Ann Abraham
• Taking the Pulse of the Essay - Rob Schnelle
• Book Review—Local Histories: Refiguring the Composition Archive - Lucille M. Schultz
• "Who Drank the Hemlock?”: An Interview with Noam Chomsky -
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