This issue marks the first guest-edited edition of Computers and Composition. In these pages, Isaiah Smithson, of Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, has brought together an outstanding collection of articles to explore the wide range of issues connected with creating and maintaining computer-supported writing facilities, programs, and classrooms. Smithson details the conception and history of the collection in his own fine introductory piece, so we will conclude by saying that we consider this assemblage a landmark in the evolution of our journal. Gail and I hope that readers will enjoy and benefit from their reading of the articles as much as we did, and we predict that the individual pieces in this issue will be cited frequently as this first decade of computer use in English classrooms gives way to a new generation of technologically supported English programs.

We should also note a fortunate coincidence connected with this issue. In September, Computers and Composition published the first book in its series, Advances in Computers and Composition Studies. Creating a Computer-Supported Writing Facility, with a foreword by Art Young, is much like this issue of Computers and Composition in that it provides valuable information to teachers of English who have been charged with designing, administering, or teaching within computer-supported writing classrooms and programs. Readers can use the form at the back of this issue to order the book for their libraries. Gail and I are also already working with 20 outstanding contributors on the second book in this series, Questions for the 1990s: Research on Computers and Composition for the Next Decade. This book will be an unusual volume that identifies research and scholarly questions for specialists within the field of computers and composition--not the answers to these questions, just the questions as they present themselves to us after a full decade of experience with computers.

Enjoy this issue!