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WOE 1:1 (Fall 1989)

• From the Editors
  • John Boe and Brian Connery
• An Interview with Toby Fulwiler: "The Mechanism is Writing"
  • Eric James Schroeder
• MAD
  • Jerome Stern
• 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 J. Murphy
• Writer's Block: Guest Column
  • Mike Rose
• An Interview with Michael Herr: "We've All Been There"
  • Eric James Schroeder
• Undergraduate Creative Writing: The Unexamined Subject
  • Hans Ostrom
• Leadership in College Writing Groups
  • Robert Brooke, Tom O'Connor, and Ruth Mirtz
• New Lamps for Old: A Reevaluating of Technical Communication in the Context of Classical Rhetoric
  • Elizabeth R. Turpin
• A Response to Turpon's "New Lamps for Old"
  • Betsy Hilbert
• An Interview with Oliver Sacks
  • Dale Flynn and Susan Palo

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WOE 1:2 (Spring 1990)

• From the Editor
  • John Boe
• An Interview with Mike Rose: "Imagine a Writing Program"
  • Susan Palo
• Psychological Types and Teaching Writing
  • Charles H. Sides
• A Response to Charles Sides's "Psychological Types and Teaching Writing"
  • John Beebe
• Who Knows How the Wind Blows: Cognitive Styles in (and Outside) the Classroom
  • Lori Ann Miller
• Love in the Classroom
  • Al Zolynas
• Writer's Block: Guest Column
  • Cynthia L. Selfe
• 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 and Barbara D. Winder
• Untitled
  • Molly Giles
• An Interview with Amy Tan: Fiction - "The Beast that Roams"
  • Emory Davis

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WOE 2:1 (Fall 1990)

• From the Editor
  • John Boe
• 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
• A Response to "Throwing Our Voices"
  • Gretchen Flesher
• Writer's Block: Guest Column
  • Linda Flower
• An Interview with Richard Selzer: Rituals of Writing
  • Dale Flynn
• Beyond Mastery: Postmodern College Composition
  • Clara Juncker
• Priest on Priest
  • Robert Grudin
• "Gary Snyder"
  • Victor Ichioka
• 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)

• From the Editor
  • John Boe
• "Lisa Ede and Andrea Lunsford," an illustration
  • Victor Ichioka
• 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
• Writer's Block: Guest Column
  • James J. Murphy
• Plain Language from a Postmodernist Professor
  • Jane Bowers
• Having Submitted the Manuscript…
  • Robert Grudin
• Slaves of the Word
  • Clark Brown
• "Stephen Jay Gould," an illustration
  • Victor Ichioka
• An Interview with Stephen Jay Gould: This View of Writing
  • Jared Haynes
• Writing on the Hypertextual Edge
  • Stuart Moulthrop
• Notes for Izme Pass Exposé
  • 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
• Understanding the Act of Reading: the WOE Beginner's Guide to Dissection
  • J. Yellowlees Douglas
• The Contingencies of the Hypertext Link
  • Terence Harpold
• The Planes: A Decoupled Monomeric Hypernarrative
  • John McDaid
• Polymers, Paranoia, and the Rhetoric of Hypertext
  • Stuart Maulthrop
• Writer's Block cartoons
  • Tim Flower

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WOE 3:1 (Fall 1991)

• From the Editor
  • John Boe
• "Linda Flower," an illustration
  • Victor Ichioka
• 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
• Writer's Block: Guest Column
  • Andrea Lunsford and Lisa Ede
• From the Photograph to the Written Text: Writing as Translation
  • Ann C. Colley
• The Skull Beneath the Skin
  • Virginia Allen
• "Calvin Trillin," an illustration
  • Victor Ichioka
• An Interview with Calvin Trillin: "I'll Just Go and Fix It"
  • John Boe
• Writer's Block cartoons
  • Tim Flower

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WOE 3:2 (Spring 1992)

• From the Editor: Magic Beans
  • John Boe
• 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
• Writer's Block: Guest Column
  • Toby Fulwiler
• "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
• "Perro Klass," an illustration
  • Victor Ichioka
• The Biorhythms of a Writer: An Interview with Perri Klass
  • Dale Flynn
• Writer's Block cartoons
  • Tim Flower

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WOE 4:1 (Fall 1992)

• From the Editor: Puritan English
  • John Boe
• "Peter Elbow," an illustration
  • Greg Ross
• 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
• "Cynthia L. Selfe," an illustration
  • Victor Ichioka
• An Interview with Cynthia L. Selfe: "Nomadic Feminist Cyborg Guerilla"
  • Carolyn Handa
• Writer's Block: Guest Column
  • Michael Spooner
• 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
• "Roger Angell," an illustration
  • Victor Ichioka
• An Interview with Roger Angell: "They Look Easy, But They're Hard"
  • Jared Haynes
• Writer's Block cartoons
  • Tim Flower

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WOE 4:2 (Spring 1993)

• From the Editor
  • John Boe
• "Donald Murray," illustrations
  • Donald Murray
• "Donald Murray," an illustration
  • Victor Ichioka
• "Mucking about in Language I Save my Soul": An Interview with Donald Murray
  • Driek Zirinsky
• The Writer as Holy Fool: A Virtue of Stupidity
  • Tony Jasnowski
• Performing John Cage's 4'33" in the Freshman Composition Classroom
  • David Starkey
• Primal Sympathy
  • Meredith Sabini
• Take Nothing for Granted
  • Terry Caesar
• Writer's Block: Guest Column
  • Jay Jerome
• 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 Inventio
  • Thomas Hager
• The god with lightning feet
  • Meredith Sabini
• Crossing the Lines: On Creative Composition and Composing Creative Writing
  • Wendy Bishop
• "Jonathan Miller," an illustration
  • Victor Ichioka
• Role-Playing and the Interstitial Person: An Interview with Jonathan Miller
  • Dale Bachman Flynn
• Writer's Block cartoons
  • Tim Flower

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WOE 5:1 (Fall 1993)

• From the Editor
  • John Boe
• "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
• "Margaret Atwood," an illustration
  • Victor Ichioka
• "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
• "William Finnegan," an illustration
  • Victor Ichioka
• Writing About Lives on the Edge: An Interview with William Finnegan
  • Ellen Lange
• Writer's Block cartoons
  • Tim Flower

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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
• Writer's Block: Guest Column
  • Wendy Bishop and Hans Ostrom
• Paradise Reclaimed: Or, How I Grew Up Through English
  • Sharon Flitterman-King
• Ad Hoc
  • Susan R. Blau
• "John McPhee," an illustration
  • Victor Ichioka
• "The Size and Shape of the Canvas": An Interview with John McPhee
  • Jared Haynes
• Writer's Block cartoons
  • Tim Flower

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WOE 6:1 (Fall 1994/Winter 1995)

• From the Editor: Physical Therapy and Writing Instruction
  • John Boe
• "Individualize": An Interview with James Moffett
  • Eric Schroeder and John Boe
• The Junk That's in Us: Revisiting William Stafford
  • Margrethe Ahlschwede
• Begin by Beginning Again
  • Katharine Haake
• Writer's Block: Guest Column
  • Prince Hamlet
• "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
• "John McPhee," an illustration
  • Victor Ichioka
• "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

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WOE 6:2 (Spring/Summer 1995)

• From the (Special Issue) Editor
  • Susan Palo
• "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
• Writer's Block: Guest Column
  • John Swales
• 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

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WOE 7:1 (Fall 1995/Winter 1996)

• 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

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WOE 7:2 (Spring/Summer 1996)

• 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: Familial Diversity and the Composition Classroom
  • 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 James Schroeder

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WOE 8:1 (Fall 1996/Winter 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 A. Olson
• generous measures
  • Gary Lundy
• “Stand and Deliver” Meets “Dead Poets Society”
  • Michael Steinberg
• The Creative Writing 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

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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

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WOE 9:1 (Fall 1997/Winter 1998)

• 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

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WOE 9:2 (Spring/Summer 1998)

• From the Editor: School as Prison
  • 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 1998/Winter 1999)

• From the Editor: The Music of Words
  • John Boe
• "Stop Being So Coherent": An Interview with David Bartholomae
  • John Boe and 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
• Writer's Block cartoons
  • Tim Flower

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WOE Special Double Issue: 10:2 (Spring/Summer 1999) & 11:1 (Fall 1999/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
• Jennifer Shaff
  • Jasmine
• 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 Stories
  • 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 and Vincent
  • Vicki Flucard Smith
• Writer's Block cartoons
  • Tim Flower

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WOE 11:2 (Spring/Summer 2000)

• 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 and 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
• Writer's Block cartoons
  • Tim Flower

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WOE 12:1 (Fall 2000/Winter 2001)

• 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 Donahoe
• My First Book
  • Mather Schneider
• Playing by Different Rules: "Gender Switching" and Critical Pedagogy
  • Amy Ward Martin
• 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
• Writer's Block cartoons
  • Tim Flower

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WOE 12:2 (Spring/Summer 2001)

• 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 Martínez
• 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
• The Empowerment of Laughter and the Language of Community
  • Tarez Samra Graban
• "A Strange Hodgepodge": An Interview with Oliver Sacks
  • Dale Bachman Flynn

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WOE 13:1 (Fall 2002)

• From the Editor: The Limitations of Language
  • John Boe
• "Failure is the Way We Learn": An Interview with William E. Coles, Jr.
  • 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 Teenagers
  • Denise Abercrombie
• It Doesn't Work for Me: A Critique of the Workshop Approach to Teaching Poetry Writing and a Suggestion for Revision
  • Tom C. Hunley
• Verb Lesson
  • Beth Paulson
• "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 2003)

• 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 2003)

• From the Editor: Noise from the Writing Center and Educating Esmé
  • 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 2004)

• 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 Disciple of the Line
  • Elizabeth Birmingham
• "Ideas Stream By": An Interview with John McPhee
  • Jared Hayes

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WOE 15:1 (Fall 2004)

• From the Editor
  • John Boe and Eric Schroeder
• 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
• 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 Renée Goodman
• Tractors, Cactus and Exotic Pets
  • Martin Scott
• "This Electrifying Moment": An Interview with Anna Deavere Smith
  • J. Chris Westgate

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WOE 15:2 (Spring 2005)

• From the Editor
  • John Boe
• An Interview with Wayne Booth: "Covering Almost All of Life"
  •   John Boe
• Content in Composition Studies: Four Ways of Discussing a Difficult Subject
  • 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
• Writer's Block cartoons
  • Tim Flower

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WOE 16:1 (Fall 2005)

• From the Editor
  • John Boe
• "The Alternative Teacher": An Interview with Roger Sale
  • 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 Beall Smith
• “Life Is Dangerous”: An Interview with Alan Lightman
  • Cassandra Atherton
• The Last Word

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WOE 16:2 (Spring 2006)

• 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 2006)

• 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 2007)

• 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 Hesse
• 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 2007)

• 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 2008)

• 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
• "Writers are Possessed": An Interview with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
  • 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
• The Last Word

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WOE 19:1 (Fall 2008)

• 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
• The Last Word

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WOE 19:2 (Spring 2009)

• 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
  • Cassandra Atherton
• The Last Word

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WOE 20:1 (Fall 2009)

• From the Editor: Twenty Years
  • John Boe
• “Writing Itself Is Some Sort of Kluge”: An Interview with Gary Marcus
  • Carl Whithaus and Dale Bachman Flynn
• God in the Comp Class: A Pragmatic Approach
  • Joe Wagner
• Confluences (Donald Murray Prize Winner)
  • Jennifer Sinor
• Selected Highlights from Twenty Years of WOE Interviews
• Everything Was Going Quite Smoothly until I Stumbled on a Footnote
  • David Bartholomae
• Invisible Classes: An Imaginary Dialogue and Travelogue
  • Justin Thurman
• Role-Playing in Comp—Fake It ’Til You Make It
  • Brian Jackson
• “Just Another Working Guy Who Had a Weird Idea for a Book”: An Interview with Sebastian Junger
  • Katherine Maguid
• The Last Word

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WOE 20:2 (Spring 2010)

• From the Editor: What the F!
  • John Boe
• "The Stuff That’s Quirky and Fresh and Surprising": An Interview with Mary Roach
  • Dale Bachman Flynn
• The Writer's Hourglass
  • Joel Garber
• Ready or Not: A One-Act Play
  • John Yohe
• Screenplay! The Fate of English 489
  • Darsie Bowden
• There‘s Humor and There‘s Tears”: An Interview with Sondra Perl
  • John Boe
• It Started with Process: One Writer and Teacher‘s Journey
  • Kathleen J. Cassity
• Finding the “Lovely Lower Purposes” of Writing
  • Paul Walker
• “If You Don't Want to Take Risks, Then You Have to Be Silent”: An Interview with Howard Zinn
  • Cassandra Atherton
• The Last Word

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WOE 21:1 (Fall 2010)

• From the Special Issue Editor: Teaching Around the World
  • Chris Thaiss
• "Serendipity and Grace": An Interview with Eric Weiner
  • Eric Schroeder and John Boe
• On Teaching Writing in Thailand
  • Pisarn Bee Chamcharatsri
• Teaching Writing in Equador: Falsos Amigos, Primos Hermanos, and Hermitas Con Café
  • Carol Severino
• Writing Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada:  Dwelling and Crossing
  • Jaqaueline McLeod Rogers 
• (In Search of) New Zealand Literacies: Writing Instruction, Place, and Publics
  • Hannah Gerrard
• Across the Curriculum, Across the Sea: Writing the Mangle of a French Engineering School
  • Rebecca Savage Bilbro
• Recovering Teacher
  • Jo Scott-Coe 
• A Case for Stephen King's Memoir for Writing Instruction
  • Thomas Allbaugh
• "More is More": An Interview with William Least Heat-Moon
  • Shellie Banga
• The Last Word

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WOE 21:2 (Spring 2011)

• From the Editor: My Best Teacher
  • John Boe
• "Our Work Defines Who We Are": An Interview with Patrick Bizzaro
  • Edward Carvalho 
• On Genres as Ways of Being
  • Paul Heilker 
• "In Our Names": Rewriting the U.S. Death Penalty
  • Kimberley K. Gunter 
• The Cook, the Student, His Wife, and Their Teacher
  • Casey O'Brien Gerhart
• Yes, Professor
  • Sue Saltmarsh 
• Professing Emotion: What I Didn't Say about the Holocaust in First Year English
  • Matthew A. Levy
• Talking to One's Selfs
  • Ryan Ireland 
• Teaching the Texts We Love
  • Heather Trahan 
• Humanomics: An Interview with Deirdre McCloskey
  • John Boe and Ed Kahn 
• The Last Word

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WOE 22:1 (Fall 2011)

• From the (Former) Editor: This is Just to Say...
  • John Boe 
• "The Intimate Sound of a Writer's Voice": An Interview with Phillip Lopate
  • Eric Leake
• The Box—A Mantra for a Writers' Workshop
  • Annette Gendler 
• Must We Mean What We Say?
  • David Bartholomae 
• Free Riding
  • Brad Monsma 
• The Effect of Homemade Bombs on the Composition Process
  • John Verlenden 
• Something from Nothing: The Writing Teacher's Work
  • Robert Danberg 
• Letting Our Students Get to Know Us
  • Michael Larkin 
• Dictionary Marginalia
  • Virginia Beards 
• "This Is Not My Area": An Ex-Janitor's Reflections on the Campus-Wide Teaching of College Writing Skills
  • Randall Woodward 
• Worshipping at the Altar: Creative Writing and the Myth of Inspiration
  • Michael Smith 
• When Praise Becomes Problematic: Positive Feedback and the Creative Process
  • Julie K. Chisholm 
• Treachers
  • Bill Marsh 
• "Every Recipe Has a Story": An Interview with Diana Kennedy
  • Eric James Schroeder 
• The Last Word

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WOE 22:2 (Spring 2012) 

• From the Editor: Notes from the Edge
  • David Masiel 
• "Grappling with Moral Decisions": An Interview with Atul Gawande
  • Dale Flynn
• How to Do Things With Titles
  • Sandie Friedman 
• Combat in the Classroom
  • Travis L. Martin
• The Power of "No": Buddhist Mindfulness and the Teaching of Composition
  • Marlen Elliot Harrison 
• FICTION: Gaps in the Fence
  • Jim Hilgartner 
• Teaching Under Threat
  • Stephanie Elizondo Griest 
• Tracing the Image on the Ceiling: Reading as Invention
  • Jason Wirtz 
• "That From a Long Way off Look Like Flies": Lists, Writing Handbooks, and Heterotopias
  • Tara Roeder 
• Thoughts in the Presence of Emotion
  • Aubrey Streit Krug 
• "Poetry Descends from the Sacred": An Interview with Camille Paglia
  • Cassandra Atherton 
• The Last Word

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WOE 23:1 (Fall 2012)

• From the Editor: Nothing Left to Say
  • David Masiel 
• "Not Just to Bear Witness": An Interview with Jeffrey Gettleman
  • Eric Leake
• Pruning
  • Laurie Glover 
• Counter-Coulter: A Story of Craft and Ethos
  • Rebecca Jones and Heather Palmer
• FICTION: Sister
  • Andrew Lam 
• The Haunting: Poetry and Fashion in the Creative Writing Workshop
  • Cassandra Atherton 
• Beginning: An Autoethnography
  • Lauren DiPaula 
• Immigrating to Composition; Identity and Intellectual Inheritance
  • Stephen Sutherland 
• Composing: An Ars Logica
  • Adam M. Pacton 
• That Racket Down the Hallway: Shattering Silence(s) through Narratives of Inqueery
  • Daisy Breneman, Susan Ghiaciuc, and Scott Lunsford
• The Last Word

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WOE 23:2 (Spring 2013)

• From the Editor: Confessions of a Plagiarist
  • David Masiel 
• "Cultivating Writerly Sensibilities": An Interview with Doug Hesse
  • Eric Leake 
• David Byrne Starts Making Sense: Why Writing Scholars and Teachers Should Read How Music Works
  • Chris W. Gallagher 
• Debris
  • JM Huscher 
• Developmental Writing Developments
  • Greg Sullivan 
• War, Trauma, and the Writing Classroom: A Response to Travis Martin's "Combat in the Classroom"
  • Alexis Hart and Roger Thompson 
• The Rhetoric of Suicide Notes
  • Jenny Grosvenor 
• "The First Leaf in the Historical Record": An Interview with Margalit Fox
  • Jane Maher
• Writing in America
  • Holly Bauer and Madeleine Picciotto 
• Writing Woes in the Land of Moa
  • Gary Young II 
• Perspectives on Plagiarism
  • Grant Eckstein
• ~An Immodest Proposal for Preventing our Poor Students from Becoming a Burden to the Professors and Universities, Simply by Introducing a New Mark of Punctuation~
  • Stanford Tweedie 
• The Last Word 
  • Becky Kling and Mark Badovinac

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WOE 24:1 (Fall 2013) 

• From the Editor: Here I Sit
  • David Masiel 
• "Some of It Is Serendipity": An Interview with Victor Villanueva
  • Donna Evans 
• Curiosity Won't Kill Your Cat": A Meditation on Bathroom Graffiti as Underlife Public Writing
  • Cathryn Molloy 
• The Second Greatest English Teacher in America
  • Mel Livatino 
• Learning to Write: Getting to Fiction
  • Jane Arnold 
• Ice Cream in the Cold Wind: Struggles with a Second Genre in a Second Language
  • Carol Severino
• "Awk"-ing and "Frag"-ing Our Way to the Writing Center
  • Russell Brickey 
• Andy Teaches Me to Listen: Queer Silence and the Problem of Participation
  • Stacey Waite 
• The Drama of Alteration
  • Michael Woolf 
• Writing with the Wall: Inventing Memory of the Vietnam War
  • Sam Hamilton 
• "Data Don't Breathe": An Interview with Quintilian, the Master Teacher of Rome
  • James J. Murphy 
• The Last Word
  • Basia Jedruszczak

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WOE 24:2 (Spring 2014)

• From the Editor: A Failure to Thrive and Other Maladies
  • David Masiel 
• "There's No Such Thing as Wasted Reporting": An Interview with Sam Freedman
  • Sasha Abramsky 
• Billy the Kid's Tombstone, or Searching for the Publics of Creative Nonfiction
  • John-Michael Rivera 
• Summer School (after Po Chu-I)
  • Cindy King 
• Diagnosis of Exclusion: Shaping an Identity between Creative Writing and Rhetoric
  • Ben Ristow 
• Impaired Faculty: Tenure, Treatment or Termination?
  • Karen Surman Paley 
• Confessions of a Recovering Grade Inflator
  • Clara Lewis 
• Assignment Makeover
  • Bonnie Auslander
• Story of the Incredibly Non-Directive Tutor
  • Thomas Reynolds 
• Uncertain Wanderings: Allowing Students to Lead, Fail, and Grow within Service-Learning
  • Tereza Joy Kramer 
• Inspirations from Mama's Two Wisdoms
  • Leonora Anyango-Kivuuva
• My Father's Walls: Invention After Exile
  • Thomas Girshin 
• "Change Your Ruling Science": An Interview with Justine Larbalestier and Scott Westerfeld
  • Laurie Glover and Nathaniel Williams 
• The Last Word

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WOE 25:1 (Fall 2014)

• From the Editor: Reconciliation in Four Acts
  • Davis Masiel
• "Enter the Process in Uncertainty": An Interview with Nancy Sommers
  • Eric Leake and David Masiel
• Permission to Write
  • Doug Hesse and Kathleen Blake Yancey
• Derrida Lost
  • Sandie Friedman
• Circling Stories: Cree Discourse and Narrative Ways of Knowing
  • Angela Van Essen
• Negotiating the Bi-nary: Strategic Ambiguity and the Non-Nameable Identity in the Classroom
  • Sinduja Sathiyaseelan
• Measuring the Invisible: The Limits of Outcomes-Based Assessment
  • Kathleen J. Cassity
• Imitation/Emulation in the Writing Process
  • John Yohe
• Of Idle Types
  • Dale Rigby
• Comic Book Brothers: A Collaborative Literacy Narrative
  • Edward Bourelle and Andrew Bourelle

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WOE 25:2 (Spring 2015)

• From the Editor: Arguments, Murders, and Arguments about Murder
  • David Masiel
• "It's Their Story That Turns Your Head": An Interview with Kathleen Blake Yancey
  • David Masiel, William Sewell, and Hogan Hayes
• The Education Before You: When Student Complaint, Criticism, and Storytelling Become Scholarship
  • Ryan Smith Madan
• Coming in from the (Binary) Code: Deconstruction in the composition Classroom
  • Nancy Effinger Wilson
• Victims, Rebels, and Outsiders: Reconceiving Donald Murray
  • Michael Michaud
• Teaching Under the Northern Star: A Year in Finland
  • Janet Bean
• Playing the Border Lines: A Composition in Four Movements
  • Ingrid Jayne Nordstrom
• "Think Vertically!" Notes from a Comp Teacher's Diary
  • Jaydn DeWald
• "The 'Page' Walks into the Room and It's Already Written": An Interview with Michael Blumlein
  • Laurie Glover

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WOE 26:1 (Fall 2015)

• From the Editor: How to Kill a Mockingbird
  • David Masiel
• "You Can Do Your Job with a Pencil": An Interview with Sarah Vowell
  • Jillian Azevedo and Sarah Faye
• 250% Postcard Perfect—Mary's Fancy, St. Croix
  • Carrie Jo Coaplen
• When Animals Read Part I: Cats
  • Marino Fernandes
• What Makes a Personal Essay Personal?
  • Lynn Z. Bloom
• Yes/No Means No/Yes: (Non)Consensual Rhetoric
  • Paul Malker and Joshua Adair
• When Animals Read Part II: Platypodes
  • Bradfield Dittrich
• The New Literacies Narrative
  • Amanda Sladek
• The Day the Convict Came to Class
  • Sara Hardison O/Connor
• A Grammar of Grades
  • Peter Wayne Moe
• When Animals Read Part III: Pandas
  • Adam Cogbill
• Why We Write
  • Jeffrey R. Wilson
• Teaching Philosophy
  • John Yohe

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WOE 26:2 (Spring 2016)

• From the Editor: The Rhetoric of Trump's Struggle
  • David Masiel
• "It's the Way I Deal with Everything": An Interview with Matt Taibbi
  • Larry Greer
• Creating Nonfiction Writers: A Dialogue
  • Jenny Spinner, Kate Dobson, and Lynn Z. Bloom
• A Love Note to Iowa: Multigenre Writing in the Place-Based Ecocomposition Classroom
  • Yasmin Rioux
• The Person Most Powerful
  • Kate Henson
• Of Pants and Peripatetikos
  • Denise Comer
• On Being Pointless: Wrestling with Geoff Dyer
  • Amy Bernhard
• Music to My Ears: A Pedagogy Lyrically Falling
  • Isabel Grayson
• The Last Word

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WOE 27:1 (Fall 2016)

• From the Editor: Presidential Verbiage
  • David Masiel
• "A Set of Shared Expectations": An Interview with Carolyn Miller
  • Brenda Rinard and David Masiel
• Food, Shelter, Sex: A Personal Narrative for My Students
  • Michael Larkin
• The Art of Losing: Reflections of Reading, Re-Visioning, and Rebirth
  • Elizabeth Howells
• Let Us ReMarry the I and the Eye
  • Mimi Schwartz
• From One Human to the Next: How Stories Might Save Our Lives
  • Stacie Lewton Rice
• Zweisprachig. Zweiköpfig.
  • Yasmin Rioux
• Due Process
  • Jenny Grosvenor
• Teaching in My Sleep
  • Richard Kopley
• The Last Word(s)

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WOE 27:2 (Spring 2017)

• From the Editor
  • David Masiel
• "Everything Gets to Writing": An Interview with Linda Adler-Kassner
  • Lisa Sperber and Carl Whithaus
• Learning to Knit (Winner of the Donald Murray Prize)
  • Carrie Strand Tebeau
• Three Days Before the Shooting (The Donald Murray Prize: Honorable Mention)
  • Kevin C. Moore
• Essential Thruths, or The Sermon in the Suicide (The Dinald Murray Prize: Honorable Mention)
  • Jill Moyer Sunday
• Instructor Lore in the Journalism Clsssroom
  • Stephen Royek
• Bronze Age: A Life in Comica and Teaching
  • Darin Jensen
• An Atom's Width of Knowing
  • Suzanne Maria Menghraj
• The Intructor as Muse
  • Kevin Alan Wells
• Against "The End": The Art Studio as Template for the Creative Writing Classroom
  • Lindsey Drager
• "A Tension That is Rich in Possibilities": An Interview with Arthur Sze"
  • Greg Glazner
• This is the Writing, the Speaking of the Dream
  • Arthur Sze
• Webstbourne Street
  • Arthur Sze
• The Last Word: The Observation
  • Stephen J. Quingley

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WOE 28:1 (Fall 2017)

• From the Editor: Process Revisited
  • David Masiel
• "That Names Means Walks with Young People": An Interview with Frank Waln
  • Agnes Stark
• Decolonizing the Classroom: An Essay in Two Parts
  • Reanae NcNeal and Peter Elbow
• Hiroshima, 1995
  • Matt Oliver
• Listen
  • Ronald DePeter
• Our Sweet Success
  • Deborah Mutnick
• Split-Screen Freedom
  • Gregory Stephens
• Can I Be/Get a Witness?
  • D. Shane Combs
• Writers' Groups and Writing Workshops: The Real Deal or Just Friends?
  • Lynn Z. Bloom
• Cultivating Habits for Success
  • Neal Lerner
• "An Opportunity to Co-Construct": An Interview with Neal Lerner
  • Daniel Melzer
• The Last Word: Fridge Poetry
  • Authors Unknown

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WOE 28:2 (Spring 2018)

• From the Editor
  • David Masiel
• "Language as a Way of Speaking Back": An Interview with Mai Der Vang
  • Namu Ju
• Fieldwork with a Five-Year-Old: A Summative Report (Winner of the Donald Murray Prize)
  • Kate Vieira
• The Art of Combating Invisibility (Donald Murray Prize: Honorable Mention)
  • Kaely Horton
• Still Lives (Donald Murray Prize: Honorable Mention)
  • Devika Kapadia
• The Sick Rose: Some Problems with the Self
  • Cory Brown
• Red Dresses and Yellow/Green Garlands
  • Erin Kunz
• Arranging What We've Always Known
  • Sam Hamilton
• The Journey of a Deaf Translingual Tutor
  • Manako Yabe
• "You're Tring to Learn from Them": An Interview with Chris Thaiss
  • Brenda Rinard and David Masiel
• The Last Word: Hmong Keyboard

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WOE 29:1 (Fall 2018)

• From the Editor
  • David Masiel
• "The Duty Nearest to You": An Interview with Louise Wetherbee Phelps
  • Daniel V. Bommarito
• Acadepressives: A Research Story
  • M. Stewart Lewis
• The Awful Ordinary
  • Rebecca Powell
• Story, Stripped: On Caution, Safety, and the Personal Essay
  • Amy Robillard
• The Essay as Sentence
  • Lisa Lebduska
• Creative Nonfiction in the First-Year Writing Classroom: To Colonize or Theorize?
  • Jennie Young
• The Mirror, the Canvas, and a Case for Anger: Why Asian American Stories Matter
  • Charissa Che
• Softies Like Me: The Foolish Work of a Fat Queer Pedagogy
  • Zachary Beare
• Epiphanies of the Ordinary: Personal Stories of Climate Change
  • Nancy Bray
• Five Student Phrases That Stick and the Reasons They Stay Lodged in My Memory, Years After the Papers are Graded, Returned, and Forgotten
  • Erin Pushman

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WOE 29:2 (Spring 2019)

• From the Editor: Remembering Students
  • William Sewell
• "It Doesn't Come in a Box": An Interview with Chris Anson
  • Dan Melzer
• 2 Boys, 2 Men, and My Education (Winner of the Donald Murray Prize)
  • Lanita Joramo
• On Being Prepared (The Donald Murray Prize: Honorable Mention)
  • Danielle M. Williams
• Edit Your Masterpiece (The Donald Murray Prize: Honorable Mention)
  • Natalie Mucker
• The Darwinian
  • Nicholas Leither
• More Than Words
  • Londsey Illich
• My God—Why Aren't You int he English Department? A Comment in Four Parts
  • Daniel Wuebben
• Teaching Writing
  • Arlene Borsky
• Sharing to Let Go
  • Nan Kuhlman
• Seeing Past the Rainbow's Apex
  • Lisa Whalen
• On the Virtues of Doing Nothing
  • Brian Jackson
• The Last Word: The Rules of the Game
  • Swan

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WOE 30:1 (Fall 2019)

• "Assessment is the Engine of Learning": An Interview with Asao Inoue
  • Sarah Faye and Dan Melzer
• Queer Lives Still on the Boundary
  • Jonathan Alexander and David L. Wallace
• A Poetry of Embodiment: Queering the Canon with Slam
  • Carly (Frankie) Laird
• "On Belay": Chaos and Embodiment in a Composition Classroom
  • Charlotte Kupsh
• Show—Don't Tell
  • Courtney Weber
• Teaching Creativity: Lessons in Metaphor for the Composition Classroom
  • Erika Luckert
• "I Do Not Understand": How Living Abroad Helped Me Better Understand the Experiences of My International and Multilingual Students
  • April Cobos
• Cucumbering
  • Sarah O'Connor
• Remington Made Guns, Too
  • Matt McGee
• Class Warfare
  • Eric Pinder

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WOE 30:2 (Spring 2020)

• Pedagogy as RIsk: A Manifesto
  • Jamaica Baldwin
• Breathing with Both Lungs
  • Liesl Schwabe
• Rodeo, Football, and Writing: Entering the Academy through Embodied Practice
  • Diane LeBlanc
• On Writing in Two Languages in the Creative Writing Workshop
  • Caleb Gonzalez
• To Teach or Not to Teach First-Year Composition: That is the Profession
  • Mara Lee Grayson
• Fashioning a Teaching Life: Classroom Literacy Narratives as Creative Nonfiction
  • Howard Tinberg
• A Theory for Writing, Living, and Traveling Abroad
  • Stephen Quigley
• Valuing Non-Academic Literacies: An Exploratory Hike
  • Ann N. Amicucci
• Cheri
  • Jeff Hill

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WOE 31:1 & 2 (Fall 2020 - Spring 2021)

• From the Editor
  • William Sewell
• “Leaning Into Acceleration”: A Conversation between Kathy Mallow and David Starkey
  • Kathy Molloy and David Starkey
• Studentville: An Unfinished Story
  • Marcia Aldrich
• For My Students, When You’re Stressed and Anxious
  • Erica M. Dolson
• The Teaching Assistant, a Melodrama in Three Parts
  • Sophie Farthing
• Ledgers
  • Peter Wayne Moe
• Of Atoms and Perforated Bathtubs
  • Nancy Werking Poling
• Wonder Where You’re Going: Curiosity and Freshman Composition
  • Laurence Ross
• What the Sisterhood Said
  • Sue Saltmarsh
• Wine Tasting for Synesthetes
  • Carolyn Strand Tebeau
• What Women Write: On Decanting Elbow Macaroni and Saying Goodbye to Ghost Trains
  • Kristin VanEyk
• Not in Lone Splendor
  • Paul Walker
• Being Godzilla
  • Michael Smith

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WOE 32:1 (Spring 2024)

• From the Editor: Transformation and Consequences
  • William Sewell
• Genius Loci: Finding Home and Crossing Borders in the University Writing Classroom
  • Helen Lepp Friesen
• Teaching Travel: An Appeal for Social Expressivism in the First-Year Writing Classroom
  • George N. Asimos
• Making Science Communication Personal: Teaching Life Writing to STEM Undergraduates
  • Sarah Peterson Pittock
• “To Render Justice to the Visible Universe”: What I learned in Reynolds Price’s First-Year Writing Class
  • Libby Falk Jones
• On Poetry and Literacy of the Self
  • Ronnie K. Stephens
• In Process
  • Bill Marsh
• Fighting the Lone Writer in the Night
  • Ericka Russell
• Getting Back into Words Again: Stories at Work
  • David T. Humphries
• The Mother Teacher
  • Sophie Wallis Buckner
• Crash: Teaching in a Violent World
  • Sarah O’Connor
• “Dear Student Writer, I Feel You”: Reflecting on Responses to Students’ Trauma Narrative in First-Year Writing
  • By Yasmin Rioux
• On Taking Certain Measures to Teach Writing
  • Mel Livatino

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WOE 32.2 (Summer 2024)

Special summer issue forthcoming.

 

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