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An Introduction to Volume I, Issue 2, of JEST: The Journal of Electronic Student Texts
By Dr. D.E. Haley

Welcome to the second issue of my experimental electronic journal (eJournal) of texts from students in my computer-assisted classes at East Tennessee State University. These texts come from my graduate Seminar in Professional Writing (ENGL5939: Spring 2001). In this seminar we have investigated the theories and practices that inform professional/technical writing--issues such as textbook quality and pedagogical issues, formats and software in the workplace and in academia, corporate influences upon academic training in the field, and non-traditional (read non-academic) professional development options. As editor of the journal and instructor in the seminar, I am pleased to present these seminar papers. The writers are professional, by just about any standard you can apply to technical writers.

Please feel free to use the materials you find in this issue, providing you do these excellent writers the courtesy of either citing their work or otherwise giving them credit for the hours of research and writing they put into this effort. You may cite the papers in MLA or APA formats as you would cite articles from other electronic sources. If you need more information, you may contact me by email: haleyd@etsu.edu. 

Dr. Darryl E. Haley is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Computer-Assisted Writing in the Department of English at East Tennessee State University. A native of Lonsdale, Arkansas (near Hot Spring), he received his B.A. in English and M.A. in Rhetoric and Composition (Technical and Expository Writing) from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Alabama. The URL for his web site is: http://www.etsu.edu/haleyd/.