Teaching Writing With Computers: An Introduction.

This convenient professional development/teacher training resource combines landmark essays and the latest literature on the art and science of teaching writing with computers. Ideal for new instructors, TAs, writing lab tutors, and veteran composition professors, this brief, inexpensive text is designed to help instructors incorporate technology appropriately and effectively. The authors have consulted with experts in technology and composition to select readings that will guide readers at all levels toward new thinking about their teaching.

• Sixteen carefully selected readings feature the work of nearly two dozen respected scholars from a wide variety of higher education institutions.
• New and landmark literature discusses both the theory and the practical aspects of teaching writing with computers, and helps instructors incorporate technology appropriately and effectively.

Introduction Pamela Takayoshi and Brian Huot I. Writing Technologies for Composition Pedagogies Dickie Selfe, "Techno-pedagogical Explorations: Toward Sustainable Technology-Rich Instruction" Janet Carey Eldred and Lisa Toner, "Technology as Teacher: Augmenting (Transforming) Writing Instruction" Christine Tulley and Kristine Blair, "Ewriting Spaces as Safe, Gender-Fair Havens: Aligning Political and Pedagogical Possibilities" II. Learning to Teach with Technology Scott Lloyd DeWitt and Marcia Dickson, "Fools Rush In" Nicholas Mauriello and Gian S. Pagnucci, "Balancing Acts: Tightrope Walking Above an Ever-Changing (Inter)Net" Samantha Blackmon, "'But I'm Just White' or How 'Other' Pedagogies Can Benefit All Students" III. Teaching Beyond Physical Boundaries Kathleen Blake Yancey, "The Pleasures of Digital Discussions: Lessons, Challenges, Recommendations, and Reflections" Stuart Blythe, "Meeting the Paradox of Computer-Mediated Communication in Writing Instruction" Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe, "Teaching Writing at a Distance: What's Gender Got to Do With It?" IV. Teaching and Learning New Media Sibylle Gruber, "The Language of Web Texts: Teaching Rhetorical Analysis of Web Material Through Scaffolding" Carolyn Handa, "Teaching the World Wide Web: Transforming Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice" Anne Frances Wysocki, "With Eyes That Think, and Compose, and Think: On Visual Rhetoric" Mary Hocks, "Teaching and Learning Visual Rhetoric" V. Assigning and Assessing Student Writing Karla Kitalong, Tracy Bridgeford, Michael Moore, Dickie Selfe, "Variations on a Theme: The Technology Autobiography as a Versatile Writing Assignment" Chris M. Anson, "Responding to and Assessing Student Writing: The Uses and Limits of Technology" Charles Moran and Anne Herrington, "Evaluating Academic Hypertexts"