“[T]echnical things have political qualities. [. . . M]achines, structures, and systems of modern material culture can be accurately judged not only for their contributions of efficiency and productivity, not merely for their positive and negative environmental side effects, but also for the ways in which they can embody specific forms of power and authority.”

—Langdon Winner, “Do Artifacts Have Politics?”

Writing and Science Special Themed Issue

Introduction
David Tietge, Monmouth University

Computers in the Classroom? A Critique of the Digital Computer as A Metaphor for Mind
Keith Gibson, Auburn University

Composing Dialogues for Critical Thinking
David E. Goodney and Carol S. Long, Willamette University

Composing Nature
Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Purdue University
Kristi Stewart, University of New Mexico

Stasis Theory and Paleontology Discourse
Kathryn M. Northcut, University of Missouri-Rolla

Rhetoric of Science: Oxymoron or Tautology?
Cezar M. Ornatowski, San Diego State University

English Education Special Themed Issue

Introduction
Janet Alsup and Lisa Schade Eckert

Composition Studies/English Education Connections
W. Douglas Baker, Elizabeth Brockman, Jonathan Bush, and Kia Jane Richmond

Notes of a Humbled WPA: Dialogue with High School Colleagues
Tiane Donahue

'Belly Up to the Pond': Teaching Teachers Creative Nonfiction in an Online Class
Roy F. Fox and Amy A. Lannin

Building Triangles: Research and the Realization of Self in Making Sense
Mary Godwin

Training ESOL Instructors and Tutors for Online Conferencing
Beth L. Hewett and Robert Lynn

Muted Voices: High School Teachers, Composition, and the College Imperative
Joseph Jones

Creating Reflective Teacher-Practitioners in the Midst of Standards
Joan Mullin and Dorothy Cashell