Computers in the Composition Classroom : A Critical Sourcebook

by Sidler, Michelle; Smith, Elizabeth Overman; Morris, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780312458447
• ISBN10: 0312458444
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-23
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Computers in the Composition Classroomintroduces new teachers and scholars to the best thinking and practices that inform sound computer-assisted writing pedagogy. Chapters focus on critical issues such as literacy and access; identity and online writing practices; composing online; and the future of technology and writing.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. v
Introduction: Reflecting on Technology and Literacy in the Composition Classroom	p. 1
Foundations of Computers and Composition	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
CCCC Position Statement on Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Writing in Digital Environments	p. 15
Literacy, Technology, and Monopoly Capital	p. 20
The Rhetoric of Technology and the Electronic Writing Class	p. 35
Distant Voices: Teaching and Writing in a Culture of Technology	p. 46
The Politics of the Interface: Power and Its Exercise in Electronic Contact Zones	p. 64
Literacy and Access	p. 87
Introduction	p. 89
Technology and Literacy: A Story about the Perils of Not Paying Attention	p. 93
From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies	p. 116
Champing at the Bits: Computers, Copyright, and the Composition Classroom	p. 135
"It wasn't me, was it?": Plagiarism and the Web	p. 151
Reading Hypertext: Order and Coherence in a New Medium	p. 165
Writers and Identity	p. 179
Introduction	p. 181
Feminist Research in Computers and Composition	p. 185
Out of the Closet and into the Network: Sexual Orientation and the Computerized Classroom	p. 207
The Persistence of Difference in Networked Classrooms: Non-negotiable Difference and the African American Student Body	p. 218
Reversing Notions of Disability and Accommodation: Embracing Universal Design in Writing Pedagogy and Web Space	p. 228
Writers and Composing	p. 231
Introduction	p. 233
Pedagogy in the Computer-networked Classroom	p. 239
Contrasts: Teaching and Learning about Writing in Traditional and Computer Classrooms	p. 251
Rethinking Validity and Reliability in the Age of Convergence	p. 271
Looking for Sources of Coherence in a Fragmented World: Notes toward a New Assessment Design	p. 293
The Politics of the Program: MS Word as the Invisible Grammarian	p. 308
The Computer and the Inexperienced Writer	p. 326
Web Literacy: Challenges and Opportunities for Research in a New Medium	p. 333
Web Research and Genres in Online Databases: When the Glossy Page Disappears	p. 350
Institutional Programs	p. 367
Introduction	p. 369
The Debate about Online Learning: Key Issues for Writing Teachers	p. 373
Why OWLs? Value, Risk, and Evolution	p. 385
The Best of Both Worlds: Teaching Basic Writers in Class and Online	p. 389
The Impact of the Computer in Second Language Writing	p. 404
WAC Wired: Electronic Communication across the Curriculum	p. 425
The Rhetoric of New Media Writing	p. 449
Introduction	p. 451
Negative Spaces: From Production to Connection in Composition	p. 454
Part 2: Toward an Integrated Composition Pedagogy in Hypertext	p. 469
Some Notes on Simulacra Machines, Flash in First-Year Composition, and Tactics in Spaces of Interruption	p. 482
Re: The Future of Computers and Writing: A Multivocal Textumentary	p. 485
Suggested Readings	p. 499
About the Editors	p. 507
Credits	p. 509
Index	p. 513
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