CW2001 Program - Computers and Writing

Saturday
3:15 — 4:30 Session I.5
Approaches to Electronic Writing and Resistance
RB 292
Andrew Hayes, moderator
Christyne Berzsenyi
Enticing Others to Write with Us: Successful and Unsuccessful Writing
in Computer-Assisted Conferencing
In response to the problem of depersonalized and a–rhetorical
communication, this individual presentation describes four case
studies of synchronous electronic exchanges between four honors
composition students working on individual projects. In particular, the
study examines their discourse transcripts in terms of how these four
writing students have used conferencing messages to varying degrees
of success to establish a cooperative rapport, to exchange ideas, and
to offer critiques of each other’s work.
Wayne Mock
A Web-based Strategy for Promoting
Analytical and Reflective Writing
project aWWWare projects provide structured environments in which
learners analyze, interpret and evaluate information, in order that they
may formulate rational conclusions regarding controversial issues. I
relate ways of employing WebQuest Generator and project aWWWare
to help learners achieve greater insight into important issues while
simultaneously increasing their analytical and reflective writing skills.
Stanley Harrison
Our Cyberbodies, Ourselves
I argue that compositionists need to become familiar with and then
instruct their students in the art of freeware selection–as opposed to
pay, ad, and spyware selection. This type of instruction helps both
cyber-teachers and cyber-students understand that living commodities
should write their cyborg bodies with freeware alternatives where
possible, if only because this helps them to imagine and compose
alternatives to the hegemonic subject position that the ideology of
multinational capitalism privileges.
104 Computers & Writing 2001