Words as the commodity of discourse - influencing power, D.M. Fetterman; ethnographic research on AIDS risk behaviour and the making of policy, M.R. Weeks and J.J. Schensul; communicating evaluation findings as a process - the case for delaying gratification, J. Christman and E. Simon; massaging soft data, or making the skeptical more supple, M. Jo McGee Brown; gaining acceptance from participants, clients and policy-makers for qualitative research, J.A. Maxwell; a school board's response to an ethnographic evaluation - or, whose evaluation is this anyway? M. Lopez de Abascal-Hildebrand; a framework for conducting utilization-focused policy research in anthropology, B. Rylko-Bauer and J. van Willigen; ethnography and policy - translating knowledge into action, D.E. Fetterman.