COMPUTERS and COMPOSITION 10(3), August 1993, pages 3-4

With this issue, we close the tenth year of publication for Computers and Composition, and the insightful pieces that we have to offer readers of the August issue provide a sound foundation for our professions' efforts as we undertake a second decade of scholarship.

We begin the issue with two outstanding feature articles on teaching with computers. The first is by Susan Romano, from The University of Texas at Austin, who challenges and complicates the notion of egalitarian discourse on computer networks in ways that should make our readers think in new ways about their own teaching. The second article grows out of an innovative teacher-researcher program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In this piece, a talented group of instructors working with Charles Moran--Nick Carbone, Margaret Daisley, Ed Federenko, Dix McComas, Dori Ostermiller, Sherri Vanden Akker--examine their own teaching styles through the lens of online discussions.

In our "Computers and Practice" section, we are proud to offer readers a glimpse into the Computer-based writing program at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. In this article, Myron Tuman guides us carefully through the thinking, design, and evolution of his university's computer-supported writing environment. Tuman reveals the crucial role that a faculty must play in examining their educational goals in connection with computer-supported writing environments. The second article in this section--authored by Bernard Susser of Doshisha Women's College in Kyoto, Japan--is an outstanding examination of alternative pedagogies for network-based writing in English classrooms. This article is followed by a poem, "Delores," from Joe Amato.

The "Computers and Research" section of this issue offers a very special contribution by Trent Bastson, a pioneer of synchronous conferencing techniques, who discusses some of the research findings about Electronic Networks for Interaction (ENFI) growing out of a evaluation/research project focused on that system. Colleagues whose efforts were also associated with this project include Bertram Bruce (University of Illinois), Joy Kreeft Peyton (Center for Applied Linguistics), and David Bartholomae (University of Pittsburgh).

The August issue closes with a review, written by Christopher Busiel, of a new Multimedia "magazine", Verbum Interactive, that English teachers will find useful in writing and readingintensive classrooms because it "repeatedly and engagingly" challenges existing concepts of language.

Finally, with this issue, we say good-bye to both Bill Williamson and Amy Ait-Bella, two of the extremely talented graduate students serving on the Computers and Composition staff as Associate Editors. Both of these people will be going on to increasingly challenging projects; they carry with them a great deal of gratitude for a job will done and all of our best wishes.