It's summer, in Houghton, America, where the season seems even more glorious in comparison to those lengthy winters. During these few months, the sun is up at 5:00 in the morning and still provides light to read by at 10:30 in the evening. As you might guess, we take full advantage of this time, and one of the few things that could bring us inside is an issue of Computers and Composition containing some of the most exciting and controversial material we have ever published .

Before you begin to sample the contents of this collection, however, we direct your attention to the back of this issue where we make an official announcement of two annual awards that Computers and Composition is proud to establish. The first is the Hugh Burns' Best Dissertation Award, a prize awarded to the best dissertation having to do with computers and composition. The second is the Ellen Nold Best Article Award, a prize for the best article about computers and composition published in an academic journal. Each award will be given annually beginning in 1991. We can thank Gail Hawisher and the English Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, for their ongoing support of these awards.

The feature articles in this issue are also likely to attract your eye. The lead piece, written by Anne and Mike DiPardo, explores the potential of hypertext in writing-intensive classrooms. Mark Mabrito, in the second feature of this issue, provides a valuable annotated bibliography of resources in computer networking. We have also included two more poems for your reading enjoyment at the end of this section.

The third feature in this issue, which comprises our Computers and Pedagogy section, is authored by Diane Thompson and addresses the complexities of undertaking collaborative writing projects on computers. In our Computers and Research feature, Elana Joram, Earl Woodruff, Peter Lindsay, and Mary Bryson report on students' text-editing skills and attitudes toward word-processing programs.

Also be sure to check the contents of our Computers and Controversy section in this issue. It contains three commentaries on Marcia Peoples Halio's article in the January 1990 issue of Academic Computing. The first of these commentaries was collaboratively authored by a group of computer-using teachers who keep in touch through Bitnet and the second by Steven Youra, Director of the Engineering Communication Program at Cornell University. The third commentary, authored by Nancy Kaplan of Cornell University and Stuart Moulthrop of The University of Texas, is followed by a personal response from Marcia Halio.

The two reviews in this issue are also well worth your attention. Debbie D'Aoust reviews instructional software for the introductory composition classroom, and Ellen Barton reviews Society and Technological Change by Rudi Volti.

In closing, on behalf of those fans of our graduate and undergraduate staff for Computers and Composition, we regretfully say goodbye to Mary Graham, a fine editor with a critical eye for prose, and Steven Wolfel, one of the best Business Editors and production-day directors ever to cross our threshold. This Wednesday, Mr. Wolfel successfully defended his Masters Degree in Rhetoric and Technical Communication at Michigan Technological University. His project included an analysis and evaluation of the Computers and Composition organization. Next month, we expect Mary Graham to complete her RTC Masters Degree successfully. They, like our readers and contributors, have helped to make us better with every issue that we publish.