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Computers in the Composition Classroom

by Michelle Sidler; Elizabeth Overman Smith; Richard Morris

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Computers in the Composition Classroom

A Critical Sourcebook

First Edition ©2008

ISBN-10: 0-312-45844-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-45844-7
Paper Text, 544 pages

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Authors

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


INTRODUCTION
Reflecting on Technology and Literacy in the Composition Classroom 

 

Part One
FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTERS AND COMPOSITION


Introduction

1 CCCC Position Statement on Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Writing in Digital Environments


2 Literacy, Technology, and Monopoly Capital
RICHARD OHMANN


3 The Rhetoric of Technology and the Electronic Writing Class
GAIL E. HAWISHER AND CYNTHIA L. SELFE


4 Distant Voices: Teaching and Writing in a Culture of Technology
CHRIS M. ANSON


5 The Politics of the Interface: Power and Its Exercise in Electronic Contact Zones
CYNTHIA L. SELFE AND RICHARD J. SELFE JR.



Part Two
LITERACY AND ACCESS

Introduction


6 Technology and Literacy: A Story about the Perils of Not Paying Attention
CYNTHIA L. SELFE


7 From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies
DENNIS BARON


8 Champing at the Bits: Computers, Copyright, and the Composition Classroom
JOHN LOGIE


9 "It wasn’t me, was it?" Plagiarism and the Web
DÀNIELLE DEVOSS AND ANNETTE C. ROSATI


10 Reading Hypertext: Order and Coherence in a New Medium
JOHN M. SLATIN
 

Part Three
WRITERS AND IDENTITY


Introduction


11 Feminist Research in Computers and Composition
LISA GERRARD


12 Out of the Closet and into the Network: Sexual Orientation and the Computerized Classroom
JONATHAN ALEXANDER


13 The Persistence of Difference in Networked Classrooms: Non-negotiable Difference and the African American Student Body
TODD TAYLOR


14 Reversing Notions of Disability and Accommodation: Embracing Universal Design in Writing Pedagogy and Web Space
PATRICIA A. DUNN AND KATHLEEN DUNN DE MERS


Part Four
WRITERS AND COMPOSING


Introduction


15 Pedagogy in the Computer-networked Classroom
JANET M. ELDRED


16 Contrasts: Teaching and Learning about Writing in Traditional and Computer Classrooms
MIKE PALMQUIST, KATE KIEFER, JAMES HARTVIGSEN, AND BARBARA GOODLEW


17 Rethinking Validity and Reliability in the Age of Convergence
DIANE PENROD


18 Looking for Sources of Coherence in a Fragmented World: Notes toward a New Assessment Design
KATHLEEN BLAKE YANCEY


19 The Politics of the Program: MS Word as the Invisible Grammarian
TIM MCGEE AND PATRICIA ERICSSON


20 The Computer and the Inexperienced Writer
CHRISTINE A. HULT


21 Web Literacy: Challenges and Opportunities for Research in a New Medium
MADELEINE SORAPURE, PAMELA INGLESBY, AND GEORGE YATCHISIN


22 Web Research and Genres in Online Databases: When the Glossy Page Disappears
MICHELLE SIDLER


Part Five
INSTITUTIONAL PROGRAMS


Introduction


23 The Debate about Online Learning: Key Issues for Writing Teachers
PATRICIAWEBB PETERSON


24 Why OWLs? Value, Risk, and Evolution
STUART BLYTHE


25 The Best of Both Worlds: Teaching Basic Writers in Class and Online
LINDA STINE


26 The Impact of the Computer in Second Language Writing
MARTHA C. PENNINGTON


27 WAC Wired: Electronic Communication across the Curriculum
DONNA REISS AND ART YOUNG


Part Six
THE RHETORIC OF NEW MEDIA WRITING


Introduction


28 Negative Spaces: From Production to Connection in Composition
JOHNDAN JOHNSON-EILOLA


29 Part 2: Toward an Integrated Composition Pedagogy in Hypertext
SEAN D. WILLIAMS


30 Some Notes on Simulacra Machines, Flash in First-Year Composition, and Tactics in Spaces of Interruption
ANTHONY ELLERTSON


31 Re: The Future of Computers and Writing: A Multivocal Textumentary
BILL HART-DAVIDSON AND STEVEN D. KRAUSE


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ABOUT THE EDITORS

CREDITS

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