How to teach editing to students, you ask? I'll bet we can look to Russ Hunt The Computer Whiz for another solution. Aren't you working on a computer program, Russ, such that students are strapped into a chair and told to edit--whereupon they get an electric shock (nothing big, just a "slight correction" rather like the Invisible Fence) whenever a student makes an error? Sure to be a big hit among the crowd using handbooks to teach writing. Get those bugs worked out, Russ! Jack Selzer, South of the Border [log in to unmask] Jack Selzer, Associate Professor of English Department of English Penn State University University Park, PA 16802 Phone: 814-865-0251