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Diane Stephens prepared the following talk for the 2000 NCTE Conference in Milwaukee upon receiving the Alan C. Purves Award, presented to the RTE: ar ticle from the previous year's volume judged most likely to have an impact on the practice of others. In her talk Stephens considers the doubts she ha s had about the design of the award winning study, focusing especially on a researcher's obligation to help the teachers with wham the researcher is w orking, even at the risk of jeopardizing a study's design. Stephens traces the way that her engagement with that question has led to her current profe ssional commitments.