Acknowledgments     v
Introduction: Reflecting on Technology and Literacy in the Composition Classroom     1
Foundations of Computers and Composition     9
Introduction     11
CCCC Position Statement on Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Writing in Digital Environments     15
Literacy, Technology, and Monopoly Capital   Richard Ohmann     20
The Rhetoric of Technology and the Electronic Writing Class   Gail E. Hawisher   Cynthia L. Selfe     35
Distant Voices: Teaching and Writing in a Culture of Technology   Chris M. Anson     46
The Politics of the Interface: Power and Its Exercise in Electronic Contact Zones   Cynthia L. Selfe   Richard J. Selfe Jr.     64
Literacy and Access     87
Introduction     89
Technology and Literacy: A Story about the Perils of Not Paying Attention   Cynthia L. Selfe     93
From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies   Dennis Baron     116
Champing at the Bits: Computers, Copyright, and the Composition Classroom   John Logie     135
"It wasn't me, was it?": Plagiarism and the Web   Danielle DeVoss   Annette C. Rosati     151
Reading Hypertext: Order and Coherence in aNew Medium   John M. Slatin     165
Writers and Identity     179
Introduction     181
Feminist Research in Computers and Composition   Lisa Gerrard     185
Out of the Closet and into the Network: Sexual Orientation and the Computerized Classroom   Jonathan Alexander     207
The Persistence of Difference in Networked Classrooms: Non-negotiable Difference and the African American Student Body   Todd Taylor     218
Reversing Notions of Disability and Accommodation: Embracing Universal Design in Writing Pedagogy and Web Space   Patricia A. Dunn   Kathleen Dunn De Mers     228
Writers and Composing     231
Introduction     233
Pedagogy in the Computer-networked Classroom   Janet M. Eldred     239
Contrasts: Teaching and Learning about Writing in Traditional and Computer Classrooms   Mike Palmquist   Kate Kiefer   James Hartvigsen   Barbara Goodlew     251
Rethinking Validity and Reliability in the Age of Convergence   Diane Penrod     271
Looking for Sources of Coherence in a Fragmented World: Notes toward a New Assessment Design   Kathleen Blake Yancey     293
The Politics of the Program: MS Word as the Invisible Grammarian   Tim McGee   Patricia Ericsson     308
The Computer and the Inexperienced Writer   Christine A. Hult     326
Web Literacy: Challenges and Opportunities for Research in a New Medium   Madeleine Sorapure   Pamela Inglesby   George Yatchisin     333
Web Research and Genres in Online Databases: When the Glossy Page Disappears   Michelle Sidler     350
Institutional Programs     367
Introduction     369
The Debate about Online Learning: Key Issues for Writing Teachers   Patricia Webb Peterson     373
Why OWLs? Value, Risk, and Evolution   Stuart Blythe     385
The Best of Both Worlds: Teaching Basic Writers in Class and Online   Linda Stine     389
The Impact of the Computer in Second Language Writing   Martha C. Pennington     404
WAC Wired: Electronic Communication across the Curriculum   Donna Reiss   Art Young     425
The Rhetoric of New Media Writing     449
Introduction     451
Negative Spaces: From Production to Connection in Composition   Johndan Johnson-Eilola     454
Part 2: Toward an Integrated Composition Pedagogy in Hypertext   Sean D. Williams     469
Some Notes on Simulacra Machines, Flash in First-Year Composition, and Tactics in Spaces of Interruption   Anthony Ellertson     482
Re: The Future of Computers and Writing: A Multivocal Textumentary   Bill Hart-Davidson   Steven D. Krause     485
Suggested Readings     499
About the Editors     507
Credits     509
Index     513