Books in the New Directions in Computers and Composition series

Takes up the complicated question of writing faculty development and the training necessary to address shifting definitions of literate acts. This book focuses on issues of aging, addressing both attitudes toward aging literacies and the role that age plays in the acquisition of new literacy practices.

Deals with the aspect of how people use advanced information technologies to write for community change. This book argues that the work of citizenship is knowledge work - on the same order as that expected of workers in business and industry.

Provides readers with a critical self-reflective approach to studying the impact of social, cultural, historical, political, and educational backgrounds on the acquisition of literacy.

Examines how one can teach composition with computers while reflecting critically on the ways technology affects student literacies, faculty labor issues, and the educational environment at contemporary universities. This book develops an economic, political, and cultural account of the field of computers and composition.

Argues that the youth use the Web to experiment with and deploy a number of rhetorical strategies that tell about their vision for the communications technologies and the literacy practices they use to engage that technology. This book aims to offer a portrait of the future use of communications technologies, particularly the Web.

Focuses on the development of theories and pedagogies of distance learning in the English class. This book discusses the development of effective means of conveying information, developing knowledge and perfecting skills, and shows how distance learning calls instructors of English to different roles in the performance of their duties.

Addresses concerns such as: What labor, workplace, and technology issues should composition as a profession be concerned with in the 21st century? How does technology affect the shape of academic labor? How have working conditions in composition affected the ways technology is used?

Focuses on the development of theories and pedagogies of distance learning in the English class. This book discusses the development of effective means of conveying information, developing knowledge and perfecting skills, and shows how distance learning calls instructors of English to different roles in the performance of their duties.