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Based on a project concerned with studying invention across the curriculum, this paper discusses an across-the-curriculum writing program that encourages students to take control of what they are studying, contributing to what is known rather than being passively filled by it. The paper (1) challenges the current notion that creative behavior is a process somehow independent of the enduring product it struggles to produce; (2) affirms and promotes the role reading and writing have in the invention or generation of new ideas in a given discipline; (3) supports the idea that the knowledge, insights, and methodologies of several disciplines may shed light upon one another, thus enabling people to use new logics, evoke new meanings, and discover new patterns in the pursuit of knowing and thinking; and (4) offers general proposals for a new kind of program for writing across the curriculum. (EL)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert