Phyllis' message reminds me that I've been meaning to pass along the reading list we've adopted at SFU for doctoral students who want to use Composition as one of their two secondary fields, i.e., not the area of their dissertation, but an area in which they will be prepared (and certified prepared) to teach. (On the basis of this reading, they do a 3-day take-home exam.) Underlying the list is the assumption that we want them to know Composition as a discipline, to have some sense of its history, to be familiar with major trends and factions (not just those we like), to be able to recognize pedagogies or textbooks as affiliated with particular approaches, etc. In short, we would not be satisfied if they knew ONLY how to teach writing in the ways we think best. Similarly, we have not included important writers outside the field (Bakhtin, Foucault, Burke, Bourdieu, et al.)--because if these thinkers have influenced the field, there should be articles in comp journals explaining the implications (and those articles are what we would list). We are also assuming that Composition is an unusual field in which textbooks are sometimes the medium through which innovations are introduced. This reading list is under permanent revision. We would be grateful for any suggestions about important writings we have overlooked (and for any suggestions about what we should delete to make room for them). Whether this will help Phyllis is doubtful. But . . . . Thanks for your responses. Rick Coe