Lore is a journal for adjunct and graduate student teachers of writing published three times a year and edited by TAs, adjuncts, and assistant professors.   welcome to a new forum for discussing pedagogy and professional matters. informal discussions of everyday teaching issues In this issue: To New Teachers: Tips for Designing an Effective Syllabus. As editors of Lore, we are reminded of many things as we develop topics and collect submissions. For example, we realize that we often have to slow down, take a step back, and remind ourselves of the aspects of teaching that experience allows us to take for granted. It can be hard to articulate to those who are new to the profession how we design our syllabi, especially if we do so in a state more rushed than we intend-sometimes cutting and pasting from documents we've designed before. In this issue several instructors slow down and take that necessary step back to reflect on the processes that help create a document of great importance. The syllabus not only spells out course objectives and calendars, as the respondents indicate, but it also testifies to our attempts to negotiate personal predilections with institutional demands. an archived listserv on professional issues In this issue: An Invitation to Take a Survey brief essays on various aspects of teaching and composition In this issue: Tales of E-mail. For this issue of Lore, we asked for contributions that considered how we are negotiating the formal/informal boundaries that permeate communication in cyberspace. Respondents tackled this topic with two approaches: with essays that speak in general terms about the benefits and limitations of relying upon e-mail to communicate, and with more specific analyses of how e-mail is shaping and altering teacher-student dialogues. The essays we've collected indicate that there is much to say about this relatively new but already entrenched discursive arena. stories and practical advice on job seeking and balancing work and life In this issue: Tenure Advice for the Newly Hired