Fault lines in the contact zone

Richard E. Miller, author of As If Learning Mattered: Reforming Higher Education (Cornell University Press, 1998), is Associate Director of the writing program and an Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. A frequent contributor to College English, his articles have also appeared in College Composition and Communication, Profession, and Cultural Studies. He is currently at work on The Hope Machine, which looks at the role writing plays in the internalization of institutional conflicts. The following article appeared in College English, 56, April 1994.