"Snapshots" is a common term in photography. We associate it with photos taken quickly, no time for the craft of arrangement or perhaps even consideration for aesthetics. The point is to capture something before it gets away.

Verbal snapshots perform the same function. They aren't meant to be pretty crafted texts. They might exhibit moments of grace, but accidentally, not as the result of painstaking effort. The point is to capture an idea. Ideas are slippery. They can get away while we're diddling with craft. The texts collected here are attempts to seize a moment. They may be pithy, sometimes witty, sometimes infuriatingly incomplete, but if they are provocative we'll consider them successful at what they are intended to do.

	Fred Kemp Classrooms: Morph or Die? An Alternative Described Published: 11 February 1997
	Rebecca Hocks Toward a More Perfect Union Published: 05 November 1996
	John Perry Barlow Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace Last response: 07 July 1996
	W. Scott Olsen Against Speed: The Case for Reading Last response: 20 May 1996
	Mick Doherty & Elizabeth Pass What's In A Name? What We Call What We Do And Why It Matters Last response: 19 September 1996
	Beth Baldwin Evolving past the Essay-a-saurus: Introducing nimbler forms into writing classes Last response: 04 September 1996
	Mike Salvo Fatigued Fannies: Do conventional conferences really help us confer? Last response: 05 March 1996
	Fred Kemp The Main Problem: Do Writing Teachers Write? Last response: 06 January 1996
	Eric Crump The Grade: Power Vortex in the Classroom Last response: 21 January 1996

We would like to add to the collection. Have you seen something provocative on the net lately? Written something yourself that gets at something quickly and with a certain amount of impact? Please submit or nominate texts you think would be worth saving and sharing.