Reviews three books: Beyond Notecards: Rethinking the Freshman Research Paper, by Bruce Ballenger; The New Century Handbook, by Christinie A. Hult and Thomas Huckin; Outbursts in Academe: Multiculturalism and Other Sources of Conflict, ed. by Kathleen Dixon.

Writing in Multicultural Settings. Ed. Carol Severino, Juan C. Guerra, and Johnnella E. Butler. New York: MLA, 1997. 370 pages.

Reviews three books: Turns of Thought: Teaching Composition as Reflexive Inquiry, by Donna Qualley; Gypsy Academics and Mother?Teachers: Gender, Contingent Labor, and Writing Instruction, by Eileen E. Schell; Reflection in the Writing Classroom, by Kathleen Blake Yancey.