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.

The Research Paper and the World Wide Web, by Dawn Rodrigues; Assessment of Writing: Politics, Policies, Practices, ed. by Edward M. White, William D. Lutz, and Sandra Kamusikiri; Teaching the Argument in Writing, by Richard Fulkerson; Poets’ Fall, by Jon Conlon.