The Quarterly

Vol. 10, No. 3, 1988

Book Review: Designing Writing Tasks for the Assessment of Writing by Leo Ruth and Sandra Mur
By Karen Greenburg

CSW Update
By NWP Staff

I Want to Write
By Elizabeth Cooke

Literacy, Technology, and the Underprepared: Notes Toward a Framework for Action
By Glynda Hull
Accompanying this study of a group of underprepared students as they use computers is a plea to narrow the "information gap" and form a "malleable technology," offering it in ways that "direct its liberatory potential....

Report: The Keystone Project
By Sally Hampton

The Role of the Response Journal in Active Reading
By Sharon Flitterman-King
The response journal, a way of exploring what happens when we read, "takes reading out of the realm of passive behavior and makes it into a vital activity," and students who practice this approach "soon become engaged and willing learners....