ARTICLES These full-length articles represents works that integrate the system of general semantics in three distinct respects. 1. Applications in the classroom. Dona Brown explains how she used general semantics in an 8th grade Language Arts class. Wendell Johnson (University of Iowa) explains the (age old?) problem of students in graduate school who cannot write, and also describes his experiences in developing a university course in GS. Earl English, famed Dean of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, provides reasons why general semantics has proven so relevant to journalists. 2. Applications to social problems. Irving J. Lee (Northwestern) provides a scholarly summation of the key factors that still perpetuate age-old prejudices, stereotypes, and biases that lead to inevitable "unsane" consequences. 3. Applications for personal adjustment. In an article published by the Harvard University Press, Lee explains how the case method made famous by the Harvard Business School and general semantics complement one another. And well-known psychotherapist and author Dr. Albert Ellis details the relationship between general semantics and Rational Emotive Therapy (RET). 4. E-Prime English-minus-the-verb-to-be (or E-Prime) offers a simple notion as a means to more appropriate language habits: eliminate all forms of the verb to be from your speaking and writing. Steve Allen offers a brief, straightforward overview of E-Prime. Two teachers - Elaine Johnson at the high school level, Ruth Ralph in college - then relate the results of their practical applications in teaching E-Prime to their classes. Once again, you might be tempted to dismiss these articles due to their age. I urge you to resist such a dismissal. Instead, I encourage you to read these articles as though they were "hot off the press" ... and then consider ... are the notions reflected in these articles really "out of date", or are we still trying to grow into them? In terms of the issues addressed in these articles, do we not find ourselves still (in 2002-03) in the same 'boat' as those generations who preceeded us?

ARTICLES The Use of GS in Teaching 8th Grade Language Skills    Dona W. Brown You Can't Write Writing    Wendell Johnson Ph.D. A GS Course in the School of Journalism    Earl English, Ph.D. Experiences in Developing a University Course in GS    Wendell Johnson, Ph.D. A Mechanism of Conflict and Prejudice    Irving J. Lee, Ph.D. General Semantics and the Case Method    Irving J. Lee, Ph.D. ON E-PRIME Foreword to To Be or Not: An E-Prime Anthology    Steve Allen Discovering An E-Prime    Elaine C. Johnson Getting Rid of the "To Be" Crutch    Ruth S. Ralph The little word is has its tragedies; it names and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them on, therein too lies the danger. Whenever I use the word is, except in sheer tautology, I deeply misuse it; and when I discover my error, the world seems to fall asunder, and the members of my family no longer know one another. George Santayana

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