CW2001 Program - Computers and Writing

3:45 — 5:00 Session D.7
Other Voices:
Justice and Literacy/Post-literacy Issues
RB 355
Dene Grigar, moderator
Samantha Blackmon
(Cyber)Conspiracy Theories:
African American Students in the Computerized Writing Environment
Taking into account how we use these things in the classroom and the
tendency to make difference invisible on the WWW, I investigate how the
manner in which African American students see themselves constructed
in the virtual world affects how they learn in the computerized classroom
and discuss what can be done to address these issues.
Jonathan Taylor
Academic Discourse and the Bad Self:
Teaching Writing Outside the Narratives in Networked Environments
My discussion explores how computer-mediated communication can
be used to highlight differences between a transactional notion of
discourses and traditional academic notions of rhetoric, without
necessarily including a pedagogy of the academic bad self (colloquial
language use as wrong) to allow a richer understanding of language in
the teaching of writing, in other words, developing the “ba-ad self” (the
highly effective multiple discourse user).
Harun Karim Thomas
Whatever!
Two weeks before the semester’s end, I was approached by the
Director of Writing Programs at UF and offered an opportunity to
teach a Writing Through Media course in the spring in UF’s Networked
Writing Environment (NWE). I accepted without hesitation and began
thinking immediately how I might approach an appropriation of
“whatever beings,” while fulfilling the department’s course requirements:
to introduce students to the transition underway between literacy and
post-literacy (electracy) in contemporary culture, to the basic principles
of semiotics, and to the basic modes of organizing information that
underlie and make coherent the apparent diversity of popular media
narrative (enigma), argument (enthymeme), and image (trope).
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