Taking Flight With OWLs: Examining Electronic Writing Center Work

by Inman; James A.

• ISBN13: 9780805831726
• ISBN10: 080583172X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Taking Flight With OWLsexamines computer technology use in writing centers. Its purpose is to move beyond anecdotal evidence for implementing computer technology in writing centers, presenting carefully considered studies that theorize the move to computer technology and examine technology use in practice. Writing centers occupy a dynamic position at the crossroads of computers and composition, distance education, and composition theory, pulling ideas, theories, and pedagogies from each. Their continuing evolution necessarily involves increasing use of computer technology. The move to computer technology so far has occurred so rapidly that writing center staff and administration have not yet had much time or opportunity to study how and when to infuse it into their programs. The need for this collection is evident: Writing center practitioners have long discussed their roles in relation to their supporting institutions; now they are challenged to explore--even reinvent--their roles as computer technologies transform centers and institutions. In exploring varied stages of technology-infusion through field-based accounts, this volume offers readers an important and unique resource.

Table of Contents

About the Authors and Editors	xi
Preface	xix
Introduction	xxv
I: Toward a Definition and Context for Electronic Writing Center Work
The Spotted OWL: Online Writing Labs as Sites of Diversity, Controversy, and Identity	3	(14)
Mark Shadle
OWLs in Theory and Practice: A Director's Perspective	17	(12)
Lady Falls Brown
Language Learning in Networked Writing Labs: A View From Asia	29	(12)
Andy Curtis
Tim Roskams
The Culture of Technology in the Writing Center: Reinvigorating the Theory--Practice Debate	41	(14)
Randall L. Beebe
Mary J. Bonevelle
II: Narratives of Experience
Theories Before Practice(s): Proposing Computers for Writing Centers	55	(10)
Denise Weeks
Writing in the Electronic Realm: Incorporating a New Medium Into the Work of the Writing Center	65	(10)
Sharon Thomas
Mark Hara
Danielle DeVoss
Emerging (Web) Sites for Writing Centers: Practicality, Usage, and Multiple Voices Under Construction	75	(10)
Michael Colpo
Shawn Fullmer
Brad E. Lucas
Cyberspace and Sofas: Dialogic Spaces and the Making of an Online Writing Lab	85	(20)
Eric Miraglia
Joel Norris
Advice to the Linelorn: Crossing State Borders and the Politics of Cyberspace	105	(14)
Jennifer Jordan-Henley
Barry M. Maid
III: Asynchronous Electronic Tutoring
The Asynchronous, Online Writing Session: A Two-Way Stab in the Dark?	119	(10)
Joanna Castner
The Anxities of Distance: Online Tutors Reflect	129	(12)
David A. Carlson
Eileen Apperson-Williams
E-mail Tutoring and Apprehensive Writers: What Research Tells Us	141	(10)
Mark Mabrito
IV: Synchronous Electronic Tutoring
Synchronous Internet Tutoring: Bridging the Gap in Distance Education	151	(10)
Jamie Thurber
The Real (Time) World: Synchronous Communications in the Online Writing Center	161	(10)
Jake Shewmake
Jason Lambert
Putting the OO in MOO: Employing Environmental Interaction	171	(10)
Joel A. English
Ethics, Plugged and Unplugged: The Pedagogy of Disorderly Conduct	181	(12)
Jane Love
V: Looking to the Future
Making Up Tomorrow's Agenda and Shopping Lists Today: Preparing for Future Technologies in Writing Centers	193	(10)
Muriel Harris
Centering in the Distance: Writing Centers, Inquiry, and Technology	203	(8)
Gail Cummins
The Near and Distance Futures of OWL and the Writing Center	211	(12)
Barbara J. Monroe
Rebecca Rickly
William Condon
Wayne Butler
How Many Technoprovocateurs Does It Take to Create Interversity?	223	(12)
Eric Crump
References	235	(10)
Author Index	245	(4)
Subject Index	249