From the editor

Like most English teachers, I've always been an avid reader, and I'm sure that reading had a significant effect on my writing, but can this alone explain how I learned to write simple, compound, and complex sentences before I even knew what they were? At first, they were impressed by surface features such as the students' use of literary terms and advanced vocabulary, but closer reading revealed a lack of logic in some of the claims being made and repetition of statements that were clearly attempts at 11 padding." If our future English teachers don't feel that they understand the workings of the English language enough to instruct their students, maybe we need to rethink what we're doing in our classrooms where language study is concerned.