Journal Writers Research Articles

Journal Writing for Life Development

Journal writing can be a creative adjunct to psychotherapy. This article will describe a qualitative study of the experiences of journal writers. Each participant’s narrative illustrates the integration of Winnicott’s transitional phenomena, Freeman’s four stages of epiphanies, and Kegan’s adult developmental stages through journal writing. The central findings of this research are that the experience of the participants can be identified in the following three categories: therapeutic experience,meditative experience, and a transformative experience. Journal writing can be adapted by psychotherapists, as an adjunct to therapy, to aid clients in elaborating their stories, listening within, identifying epiphanies, and moving forward in the change process.This article will present a case study of one of the narratives from this research.

Celebrating a Half-Century

Welcome to this special issue of JPT celebrating SPE's 50th anniversary. A half-century ago, the society came into being as a small, primarily US-based technical organization, a spinoff of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers. Today, SPE is a 70,000-member technical-professional society with members in 114 countries and offices around the world, producing some of the industry's best publications and meetings. A lot has happened along the way. Inside this issue, you will find the stories of SPE's creation and growth, its accomplishments and challenges, and its notable leaders and members. As the society is inseparable from the oil and gas industry it serves, there are accounts of the significant events and changes that have occurred in the petroleum business as well, from the hallmark advances in technology to the evolution of the petroleum engineering profession and engineering education. There are some familiar faces here. Thirty-three past SPE Presidents reflect on the milestone events of their terms, and several industry experts look back on their journeys through the industry. Many readers will recognize JPT and technical journal writers and editors from the past, including Keith Millheim, Joseph Warren, and Dennis Beliveau. But it is not all about looking back. SPE membership is at an all-time high and growing, with new sections and student chapters sprouting across the globe. One of the big stories in SPE's history is international growth, a process that continues today. New offices are opening around the world, providing expanded services and programming for members. Several of the guest columnists in this issue offer perspectives on the future, tinged with optimism but allowing that the next 50 years could be as challenging as the last 50. A special thanks goes to all of those who contributed guest columns and reminiscences, as well as those members and companies that provided historical information and photographs, in particular, Shell, Baker Hughes, Schlumberger, and Halliburton.

A new chapter

A watershed year for a former Graduate Journal writer brings fresh career opportunities.

The Poet in Society: Art, Consumerism, and Politics in Mallarmé

By Damian Catani. (Currents in Comparative Romance Language and Literatures, 110). Bern, Peter Lang, 2003. x+284 pp. Hb $69.95; €70.00. Mallarmé as the elitist, ivory-tower intellectual, scorning the masses and couching his work in a deliberately obfuscated language to protect it from hoi polloi is an image that may be well entrenched in literary cliché, but it has been under vigorous attack for some time, thanks largely to the work of such scholars as Bertrand Marchal, Jacques Rancière and Hélène Stafford. In this sparkling contribution to the realignment of Mallarmé, Damian Catani explores the poet's journalistic writings of the 1870s as well as his complex and beautiful Variations sur un Sujet, recycled and recast in Divagations, to argue that when Mallarmé insists that ‘tout se résume dans l'Esthétique et l'Économie politique’ he is driven both by a sharp awareness of, and an altruistic concern for, the economic and aesthetic needs of the masses. As Catani rightly insists, the difficulty of Mallarmé's writing has nothing to do with elitism, but stems rather from a determination to make the world intelligible through language by reducing that language to its essentials, clearing it of all the prejudices and clichés, the hackneyed expressions and ready-made judgments that prevent true vision. Through a series of close and contextualized readings of Mallarmé's writing in La Dernière Mode, as well as his piece proposing a tax on books, and La Musique et les lettres, Catani explores the arguments and the stylistic devices that attempt to promote an aesthetics for the people in the face of the coarsening materialism of an increasingly consumerist society. Breaking down barriers between highbrow and lowbrow art, between the vision of art as cult and art as commodity, together with the determination to purge language of predictability and cliché, lies at the heart of Mallarmé's endeavour here. The poet is thus revealed as seeking the key to social change in ‘an all-encompassing literary work, established by the writer alone […] and which assumes the authority of law’ (p. 230). The study is well grounded in the critical literature, not just making good use of it, but also probing it in useful and searching ways. A few quibbles: the bibliography is so fragmented into subsections as to make searching for a particular work unnecessarily complicated, and, despite Catani's often astute exegeses, I missed a sense of Mallarmé's humour. Nevertheless, reading the closing passage where Catani, having justified his choice to focus uniquely on the journalistic writing, moves on to offer seductive hints pointing to another book focusing on the seepage and cross-fertilization between that writing and the poetry, one can only hope that the implicit promise will soon be performed.

Taking to the air

Former Graduate Journal writer compares academia to the business world.

Getting Your Ideas Into Print

Those who have sometimes thought about writing for a professional journal should be encouraged by the fact that most journal writers are the same as journal readers-practitioners and educators with something of value to share with others. There are career-enhancing advantages in journal writing, and there can be a significant amount of personal satisfaction as well. Succeeding at writing and placing a journal article requires: selecting an appropriate topic; knowing the publication and its audience and framing the article in the appropriate style; working with the journal editor to create an acceptable manuscript, which includes responding positively to the editor's criticisms and suggestions; and observing all submission requirements and deadlines. One who follows this entire process to its positive conclusion will find that journal writing can be an exacting, demanding, frustrating--and immensely satisfying--professional activity.

A Vast and Open Plain: The Writings of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in North Dakota, 1804-1806 by Clay S. Jenkinson

Punctuated with sidebar quotes from the Lewis and Clark journals, Rock Hushka's essay, "Traces of theLegacy ofLewis and Clark inCon temporaryArt,"more deeply explores the three exhibit themes and alludes that the journals are metaphors for contemporary artists' responses to those themes. Stressing that the exhibit does not specificallydeal with the Lewis and Clark Expedition nor itslegacy, Hushka demonstrates that recent artists' interpretations of place, race, and memory nevertheless fitwithin the same two-hundred-year-old traditionof illuminating the American experience. Hushka's most intriguingdiscussion is that dealingwithmemory, in which he grapples with the relativenature of history and itsreliance on subjective experiences, stating that "the effort to separate fact from fiction, regarding Lewis and Clark... often resembles psychoanalysis at a cultural level" (p. 59).He likens today's artists tophilosophers and historians? he could eas ilyadd psychoanalysts ? in their attempts to explore ideas,providing a freshpoint ofview on the workings of communal memory. Despite its attractive presentation and myriad images, thispublication does notmake fora casually read coffee-tablebook. The diverse media and topics encountered in a quick skim will make ithard to resist furtherexploration of the volume's profound subject matter and provocative ideas. From modern adaptations of theNative American ledger art tradition to enigmatic landscapes to mixed-media sculptures and collages composed of industrial, commer cial, and natural organic materials, the works of art and related discussions featured in this important book provide challenging new per spectives on the interpretationof theAmerican experience forboth scholars and enthusiasts of American culture. A Vast and Open Plain: TheWritings of theLewis and Clark Expedition in North Dakota, 1804-1806 Edited by Clay S. Jenkinson State Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismarck, 2003. Illustrations, photographs, maps, tables. 648 pages. $49.95 cloth, $34.95 paper. Reviewed byKeith Edgerton Montana State University,Billings Of the 864 days the Corps of Discovery journeyed from St. Louis to thePacific Ocean and back, 215 were spent in what would become North Dakota. Cumulatively, inparts of all threeyears directly comprising the odyssey, theCorps spent more time in North Dakota than itwould in any other place.Without question, Meriwether Lewis andWilliam Clark collected some of theirmost crucial information there, and events thatwould significantlyweigh on the fateof the expedition occurred there, too: the encounters with theMandan and Hidatsa peoples in their earth lodges along the upper Missouri above present-day Bismarck; thedeci sion tobuild FortMandan aswinter quarters in 1804-1805; theaccumulation ofvital information about thevast,uncharted reachesof the Missouri and theRockies that lay ahead of them in the subsequent traveling season; the hiring of the interpreter Toussaint Charbonneau and thedeci sionby thecaptains toallow his young Shoshone wife, Sacagawea, toaccompany theparty intothe unknown recesses of the continent; thebirth of theyoungestmember of theparty,Sacagawea's and Charbonneau's child, Jean Baptiste; the determination of which members and what Reviews 531 materials would be sentback with thekeelboat to St. Louis inApril 1805; the coming to terms with theunforgivingnorthernPlainswinter and thedailywonderment at thevast and boundless northern prairie ecosystems; thehurried return journey in 1806 inwhich Pvt. Pierre Cruzatte, unfortunately and mistakenly, shot Captain Lewis in theposterior in western North Dakota; and, finally,theCorps's fatefuland remarkable reunion innorth-centralNorth Dakota after it had split intoa number of smallerunits in west ern Montana to explore new country. A Vast and Open Plain documents all of this and then some. It isprimarily a compendium of information and almanac of each of those 215 days.Clay Jenkinson,one of theforemostLewis and Clark scholars,has organized thisvolume by presenting readers a day-by-day account from October 13, 1804, toApril 27, 1805, and then again fromAugust 2 to 20,1806, as seen directly through the eyes of the journal writers on the expedition ? Lewis, Clark, Sgts. Patrick Gass and John Ordway, and Pvt. Joseph Whitehouse ? utilizing therecentlypublished Moulton edi tionof the journals. Jenkinsonhas also included miscellaneous material thatpreviouslywas avail able only inDonald Jackson'sLettersof theLewis and Clark Expedition. Interspersed throughout are thorough and capacious editorial docu mentation, the daily meteorology as recorded by theCorps, dozens of color and black-and white photographs, and numerous maps, both contemporary and historical. A graceful fore word by JamesRonda and a lengthysummary introduction by Jenkinson contextualize the volume, as do theeditor's concluding...

Role and Position of Scientific Voices: Reported Speech in the Media

The aim of this study is twofold: one, to determine the presence and function of scientific knowledge when it is required by such cases as `mad cow' disease, when the crisis breaks in the press; and two, to explore the role of scientific information through the analysis of quoted speech used by journalists in their discourse. Citation is the most explicit form of inclusion of other-discourse (D2) in one's-discourse (D1). Within the framework of the theory of énonciation (Ducrot's poliphony perspective), in combination with a critical view of discourse, we analyse the following: (1) the identity of agents of reference chosen by journalists; (2) the specific linguistic choices made in the pre-citation segment where the agents are introduced, that is, identification of discourse procedures and use of specific verbs of communication. The study shows the proportion of scientific and non-scientific voices, the different ways of representing science agents in the process of news communication as well as the use of citation by journal writers not just to confer authority and legitimation to their discourse but to set the scene of the conflict. The scientific role is not presented as a decisive social role capable on its own of reassuring public alarm and journalists fail to secure appropriate credibility for the scientific community.

The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery

The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery, Edited by Gary E. Moulton. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. Pp. Ixviii, 413. Illustrations, maps. Cloth, $29.95JAfter spending the last twenty years as the editor of the magisterial thirteenvolume The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1983-2003), no one is better qualified to distill the voluminous record of America's exploratory epic down to a single volume than Gary E. Moulton. As the result of his efforts over the last two decades, Moulton probably knows more about the Lewis and Clark Expedition than any other American scholar. There may be some more conversant in specific facets of the expedition's journey, but in terms of the general story of the Corps of Discovery, Moulton's expertise puts him in a class by himself. It is therefore gratifying that he has provided the reading public with a condensation of the journals in one volume-a much more manageable compilation of the daily recordings of the captains and other journalists such as sergeants Floyd, Gass, Ordway, and Pryor, and private Whitehouse than the more than one million words contained in the multi-volume set that takes up the better part of an entire shelf in a large bookcase. Moulton has used his authoritative experience as a documentary editor to produce what will be, for the majority of Americans, the most accessible and readable version of the trek to the Pacific and back as recorded by the participants.There have been previous single-volume condensations of the Lewis and Clark journals, most notably Bernard Augustine DeVoto's classic 1953 edition. But these earlier versions were seriously limited by the nature of the source material available to their editors. This source material consisted primarily of a narrative history, the History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, extracted and rewritten by Philadelphian Nicholas Biddle from the field notes of the captains and other journal writers, first published in 1814 and poorly re-edited in 1893, and the first publication of the original field journals, edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites to coincide with the Lewis and Clark Centennial in 1903. The Thwaites edition, for the first time, provided Americans with an opportunity to read the words written around hundreds of campfires, complete with Clark's often inventive spelling and Lewis's frequently lyrical prose.Since the publication of previous compilations, a significant compendium of Lewis and Clark material has been added to the literature of the expedition: previously undiscovered journal materials and missing records; a masterful collection of correspondence and non-journal documentary material on the expedition edited by Donald Jackson as Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents (1962); and a significant number of scholarly books on the natural history, geography and cartography, ethnohistory, and other facets of the Expedition. Unlike previous editors of one-volume Lewis and Clark journals, Moulton had access not only to these fruits of two new generations of Lewis and Clark scholarship, but to his own twenty-year involvement with the original journal materials. …

A PATRIOTIC LEFTIST DEVELOPMENT-STRATEGY PROPOSAL IN TURKEY IN THE 1930S: THE CASE OF THE KADRO (CADRE) MOVEMENT

This article attempts to make a contribution to the intellectual history of the early Turkish Republic through an examination of Kadro, a monthly journal of political, economic, and social ideas, which was published in Turkey between 1932 and 1934.1 The Kadro movement took its name from the journal Kadro; the journal aspired to fulfill two self-appointed tasks: to develop an ideological framework in which to interpret the Turkish revolution that had created the republican regime led by President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,2 and to suggest economic policies that, in accordance with this ideological framework, the regime should pursue in the future. Although Kadro clearly identified itself with the republican regime, and although its publication was sanctioned and encouraged by leaders of the Kemalist regime (the same political leadership that eventually forced Kadro to cease publication), it was not a simple emanation of the government or of the ruling Republican People's Party (RPP). Most of the journal's regular writers had “leftist” backgrounds that had, on occasion, brought them into collision with the republican authorities. Kadro's political loyalty to the regime was never in question, but within these limits, it exhibited a striking degree of intellectual independence.

Nuevo concepto de Redacción Periodística.

A new concept of journalist writing teaching The Author of this article has almost half a century of educational experience on Journalism and, concretely, in the subject of Journalistic Writing whose basis is the accep 307 Enrique de Aguinaga Nuevo concepto de Redaccion Periodistica tance of the existence of some certain journalistic genres. The Author propound a new concept about the subject of Newswriting or of Journalistic Writing.

Writing for Publication: Advice from Authors

This article — third in a series encouraging rehabilitation counselors to publish — surveyed published authors of JARC over a 6-year period (1990-1996) and summarized their advice for aspiring journal article writers. Surveyed authors (1) identified common obstacles to publishing efforts, and (2) annotated useful resources for publishing. Finally, they (3) offered general advice for preparing and submitting a first manuscript to rehabilitation counseling-related journals.

The Bible as Moveable Feast

The Bible as Moveable Feast Anne Lundin (bio) Ruth Bottigheimer . The Bible for Children: From the Age of Gutenberg to the Present. New Haven: Yale UP, 1996, pp. xiv + 338. Myth and folklore speak of the infinite renewability of literature from within, as new readers respond with new readings, and from without, as the same tale appears in variant faces and forms. Ruth Bottigheimer's The Bible as Literature: From the Age of Gutenberg to the Present reveals the mutability of the Bible as it was transformed from within and without in retellings for children. This scholarly work represents a transformation in the field of historical criticism of children's literature. From Harvey Darton's neglect of religious writings for children as beyond the parameters of "spontaneous pleasure" and nondidactic intent to Bottigheimer's cultural and historical surround of the Bible as children's text, the historians have dramatically changed their tale-telling as well. Historians are now the storytellers in a broad cultural discourse on constructed reality. The opening of the canon draws new subjects to the fore and causes old subjects to be re-visioned. Textual and intertextual approaches, such as feminist studies, expose the sociohistorical dimensions of literary work, while traditional methods of philology reappear: bibliography, manuscript studies, and analyses of the forms, methods, and materials of literary production. Religious literature may be suspect in the schools, but as literary history the Bible is in its prime. Basing their efforts on the firm foundation of Bottigheimer's labors, scholars might consider a wealth of related research, particularly in terms of reading history. How was the Bible read? How did journal writers, especially female, speak of the Bible? What of the marginalia and the whole peritext as semiotic sign and reader response? What else can be said about the culture industry of Bible stories today? Bottigheimer's work is a landmark in a slow rise of scholarly interest in religious literature for children. While the book is original and singular in focus, other historians have been working the land before her. William Sloane's pioneering study of English and American children's books of the seventeenth century (1955) finds that nearly all of the 261 items in his checklist are directed toward religious teaching or moral improvement, and Mary Thwaite's 1963 survey, From Primer to Pleasure in Reading (whose title represents the old dichotomy), introduces a few noteworthy examples—among "the wealth of materials to be explored"—to illustrate the development of the Bible story for children (23); Warren Wooden's incomplete study Children's Literature of the English Renaissance (1986) treats seriously the explicit religious texts used with children; d'Alte Welch's 1972 bibliography of American children's books published before 1821 lays important groundwork; and Margaret Nancy Cutt explores the context of nineteenth-century evangelical writing for children in Ministering Angels (1979). In Engines of Instruction, Mischief and Magic (1989), Mary Jackson includes religious publishing as part of the new confluence of "morality and business" in the children's book industry (3), while Patricia Demers in Heaven upon Earth (1993) summarizes the status of religion in historical children's book history and examines various genres of moral and religious literature. Samuel Pickering, Jr.'s Moral Instruction and Fiction for Children, 1749-1820 (1993) examines religious allegory and emblems and preaches a more sympathetic approach to the subject; Gillian Avery in the first history of American children's literature, Behold the Child (1994), illuminates Puritan writers and their heirs, and scholars such as Mitzi Myers, writing on eighteenth-century children's literature, implore those in the field not to read didactic texts didactically. All of these efforts have helped to create the body of knowledge on which Bottigheimer builds this substantial work. The larger body-part is the study of folklore, in which Bottigheimer is an eminent international figure. While folklorists have long been interested in religious practices, the emphasis was on commonalities of belief. Her approach as a folklorist is to pursue differences, to find patterns of change in the way tales are retold, to reveal other kinds of cultural beliefs. Bottigheimer is best known for Grimms' Bad Girls and Bold Boys, which analyzes...

Feminism, Ecology, Romanticism

lizabeth A. Fay's Becoming Wordsworthian: A Performative Aesthetics is a strikingly original, conceptually fascinating, and reader-challenging excursion into largely uncharted realms of psycho-aesthetic-cultural-feminist-topographicalmythopoetic criticism. The book positions itself in relation to one of most prevalent-and undeniably productive-obsessions in current academic criticism, discrimination of Romanticisms on basis of gender. William Wordsworth is a central (dare one say seminal?) player in these scholarly debates. His masculinist project (4) is often cited by feminist and cultural critics as paradigmatic of male Romantic quest for poetic self-creation that silences, effaces, or in some way violates feminine. Exactly what constitutes the feminine is not always clear, but fact that Dorothy Wordsworth was William's life-long companion, amanuensis, interlocutor, and critic, as well as a (mainly unpublished) poet and journal writer who suffered mental and physical disorder in old age, has led to speculation concerning effects of brother's egotistical sublime on sister's putatively failed talent (4). Like other studies interested in contours and ramifications of a female English Romanticism, Becoming Wordsworthian cites considerable and, until recently, underappreciated influence on William Wordsworth of contemporary women poets such as Helen Maria Williams and Charlotte Smith. The book hypothesizes, for example, that William's imaginative reconstruction of Lake

Re‐Weaving the Argument: A Response to Parker

I had thought that the argument of The Apotheosis was rather well-knit, but owing to Parker's somewhat careless piece of 'knit' picking, I felt that the best response would be to reweave my argument in a more straightforward manner than that developed in my book. I will also retell in more straightforward methodological terms the thrust of my work. Once that is done, I can better frame most of Parker's criticism in an orderly argument.1 In The Apotheosis I try to step outside the particular structuralist paradigm that Marshall Sahlins deals with for reasons that will be readily apparent. The core argument of the book is in section VI (pp. 120-53) where I show that the apotheosis of the great explorer was a European construction and that it was developed initially in London and not in Hawaii. The first signs of this appear in the eulogies on Cook at his death; in letters and poetry; and in the theatre performance Ornai with its crucial scene in which Englishmen dressed as Hawaiians lament the death of their god Lono on the English stage. I show that the last is an English cultural construction that could not have come from the major journal writers because they did not make this connection. The connection was made in the official version of the voyages published 1784 and edited by Captain James King and a total outsider, Canon John Douglas, five years after Cook's death. The information about the apotheosis could not have come from some Hawaiian source either because the first ships to reach Hawaii arrived in 1786 and therefore they could not have brought news of Cook's apotheosis to England in 1784. The painting of Cook ascending to heaven escorted by Britannia and Fame is very European and indeed (I might add) influenced other European works, such as Rodin's painting on the 'apotheosis of Louis IV. The European myth totally idealised Cook portraying him as an exponent of Enlightenment values and this, I suggest, is an expression of that which is supposed to elude mythologization, namely rationality itself, the main plank of the Enlightenment credo. There were also Christian forms of the myth that went contrary to the Enlightenment one, most importantly the poet Cowper's depiction of Cook as Herod. Because he permitted himself to be apotheosized, says Cowper, God struck him dead. This version of the myth was well known in the US in the early 19th century and it went into the evangelical traditions represented in the Christian missions to Hawaii. I argue that the myth of the white explorer cum civiliser who is a god to savages is nothing new and one of its more powerful manifestations was the supposed apotheosis of Cortes (and by some accounts Columbus). That particular myth-form therefore has had a long run in European culture and consciousness and it manifests itself in shipboard gossip and narrative. Thus, when the first European visitors landed in Tahiti in 1767 during Wallis' circumnavigation, some of the crew

Editorial/Introduction

Editorial/Introduction Lawrence Rainey and Robert von Hallberg We begin this journal in the belief that the artistic movement known as modernism produced the most radical and comprehensive changes in western culture since romanticism. Here would be the place to list those changes, if only they were all nameable and known, like characters in a chapter of yesterday’s reading. Instead we sense that the effects of modernism still reverberate through all the arts, and its products surround us in the buildings where we work, the houses and apartments where we live, and even the chairs where we sit now trying to itemize its effects. Modernism was more than a repertory of artistic styles, more too than an intellectual movement or set of ideas; it initiated an ongoing transformation in the entire set of relations governing the production, transmission, and reception of the arts. The modernists themselves seem to have understood this when they urged that changes in the arts be viewed in conjunction with changes in philosophy, historiography, and social theory, to say nothing of the scientific shifts that they claimed as part of their moment’s cultural revolution. The success of modernism was so great that we all feel ourselves to be latecomers: postmodernism is the term now invoked to assert an epochal shift away from our parents’ perspective. We hope that every issue of Modernism/Modernity will convey some sense of the grand ambition and scope of artists and intel-lectuals of the first half of this century. This is to say that this journal will look widely at the art and thought of this period, but also that we want to examine the sense of contestation that was essential to it: between old and new orders, of course, but also among various divi-sions of the intellectual endeavor. We hope for a journal that not only records and explains some of the crossings between architecture and political thought, say, or between music and economics; we want [End Page 1] the essays and reviews we publish to attempt similar crossings. We will be pleased to publish essays and reviews by sociologists on literary history, for example. We won’t always be able to find this sort of work, but we will always be looking for it, and will regularly ask our authors to push toward their neighboring disciplines in the hope that readers will recognize the appropriateness of this ambition in a journal devoted to the study of modernism, even when they may disapprove of poachers on their own particular territory. The particular examples of border crossing that we’ve cited will suggest one of the two major ambitions of the journal. One is simply to maintain a sense of the international dimensions of modernism. An essay about a New Jersey poet, as is evident in this first issue, may sit next to another about German expansion into Poland. Our other, more difficult objective is to bring into dialogue writers in the social sciences engaged by issues of modernity and modernization and scholars of the literary and fine arts committed to the history of modernism in the arts. Scholars of the humanities have borrowed a great deal lately from social, political, and economic historians, and procedures of literary inter-pretation have influenced the writing of history as well; but we have a long way to go before we can claim that these two large divisions of professional intellectual activity are in dialogue with one another. In the pages to follow we intend to experiment with various ways of encouraging collaboration, though we know that it will be much easier to retain the international scope of modernism than it will be to facilitate exchange across the disciplinary boundaries separating literary critics and political theorists, economists and musicologists. For the first few issues of Modernism/Modernity we have chosen themes that will allow us to draw into the journal writers from various scholarly disciplines. Our first theme is modernism and race, a subject crucial both to modernism and to the social transformations of modernity. For while the modernists frequently advocated internationalism in art and politics, they also drew on folk or ethnic traditions that seemed to preserve intact vestiges...

Discussant

I'll start with culture. Today we have been speaking principally about culture in the republics. I would like to address the common problems facing the post-Soviet republics. I agree with Edward Allworth that there is a crisis or trauma not only for the national intellectuals, but for intellectuals as a whole. This is especially a trauma for intellectuals who were supported by the state. They had very comfortable lives inside the institutes and the cultural unions. Now these privileges are disappearing. Previously intellectuals’ lives were characterized by a kind of self-adoration of their positions, of their purity, of their disengagement from political life, and this stance is now also in crisis. Recently, I read a very interesting article which said that today nobody wants to engage in the escapist literature that was once so popular. Nobody wants to hear about themes of history, of Egypt, the Silver Age, and so on because politics is now the hot topic in cultural life. A similar situation occurred in the Prague Spring, and we know that the results in this case were very fruitful. Havel, who was a very sophisticated journal writer, became a very contemporary, very active, and essential writer. And I consider this crisis, this struggle of intellectuals, a good sign. The people who will survive will be those whom other people read. Conversely, Chengiz Aitmatov, who was long a friend of the national struggle, who made a name for himself as a writer concerned with conditions in Kirgizia, and who was a defender of the national traditions, now prefers to be Ambassador to Luxembourg. While I was very surprised by this, this is also typical of the struggle to which I refer. Secondly, as Professor Allworth noted, it is true that Kazakh leaders

The Art of Editing; The Importance of Mechanics in Journalistic Writing: A Study of Reporters and Editors; Trade Show Marketlng Idea Kit: A Hands-On Approach for Trade Show Marketers; Seeing is Remembering: How Visuals Contribute to Learning from Television News

Review of "The Art of Editing ," by Peter Jacobi in Folio ; "The Importance of Mechanics in Journalistic Writing: A Study of Reporters and Editors," by Steven A. Ward and Rick Seifert ; "Trade Show Marketlng Idea Kit: A Hands-On Approach for Trade Show Marketers", Skyline Displays, Inc.; "Seeing is Remembering: How Visuals Contribute to Learning from Television News," by Doris A. Graber.

The Importance of Mechanics in Journalistic Writing: A Study of Reporters and Editors

These authors asked 86 reporters and their editors to fill out some measures of their knowledge of language mechanics and writing ability. The study found that editors judge reporters according to three major factors: writing mechanics, expressive skills, and journalistic abilities. Reporters judge themselves very similarly. On some tasks, college English majors scored better than did other types of college majors.

PROLIFIC WRITERS IN MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPY: A RESEARCH NOTE

Success and promotion within an academic setting depends heavily upon one's ability to publishscholarly work. The “publish or perish” syndrome, and how it relates to marital and family therapy, is of importance to current and aspiring academicians' futures as well as those who wish to impact the field. Research was conducted to identify the most prolific journal writers in the field, and 18 persons were surveyed in order to ascertain how they organized themselves personally and professionally, in order to write productively. The results are analyzed, and recommendations are made regarding the organization of oneself for publishing success.