The Computer in Composition Instruction

The Computer in Composition Instruction
Author: William Wresch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1984
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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This compilation of articles on computer applications in writing instruction deals with the areas of prewriting, editing and grammar, word processing research and applications, and programs for the writing process. It contains the following papers: "Recollections of First-Generation Computer-Assisted Prewriting," by Hugh Burns; "Computer-Based Creative Problem Solving." by Dawn Rodrigues and Raymond J. Rodrigues; "SEEN: A Tutorial and User Network for Hypothesis Testing," by Helen Schwartz; "Improving Students' Revising and Editing: The Writer's Workbench System" by Kathleen Kiefer and Charles Smith; "HOMER: Teaching Style with a Microcomputer," by Michael Cohen and Richard Lanham; "The COMP-LAB Writing Modules: Computer-Assisted Grammar Instruction," by Michael Southwell;"Integrating Computers into a Writing Curriculum; or, Buying, Begging, and Building," by Lillian Bridwell and Donald Ross; "Real-Time Gadgets with Feedback: Special Effects in Computer-Assisted Writing," by Stephen Marcus; "Can the Computer Stimulate Writers' Inner Dialogues?," by Colette Daiute; "Questions, Answers, and Automated Writing," by William Wresch; "WANDAH: Writing-Aid AND Author's Helper," by Ruth Von Blum and Michael Cohen; "Wordsworth II: Process-Based CAI for College Composition Teachers," by Cynthia Selfe; and "Toward the Design of a Flexible, Computer-Based Writing Environment," by Christine Neuwirth. It also contains an annotated bibliography and a glossary of computer terms. (CRH)

Computers & Composing

Computers & Composing
Author: Jeanne W. Halpern
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1984
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780809311460

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Intended to (1) acquaint teachers with the potential of computers, (2) show them what changes writers may have to make in their composing habits, and (3) inform teachers of the changes they may have to make in course syllabi to prepare students for the demands of the electronic world, this book examines the impact of technology on composition instruction. The first chapter discusses the capabilities and rapidly growing use in the business and professional world of such electronic technology as telecommunication systems and audio and electronic mail systems. The second chapter distills information about dictation and word processing systems from an extensive review of research literature and from interviews with computer users and trainers at various business sites across the country. Based on this, the third chapter outlines the curricula required to enable students to be effective composers at the computer. The fourth chapter contains forecasts of the kinds of research still needed for teachers to develop fruitful programs and strategies in the composition classroom. Appendixes include materials from the interviews, and information on audio mail systems and dictation processes. (HTH)

Computers and Community

Computers and Community
Author: Carolyn Handa
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1990
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

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These exciting and moving reports of a revolutionary composition pedagogy develop a common theme: the most profound changes wrought by computers in the composition classroom are social, political, and pedagogical, not technological.

Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education, 1979-1994

Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education, 1979-1994
Author: Gail E. Hawisher
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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This book is a history composed of histories. Its particular focus is the way in which computers entered and changed the field of composition studies, a field that defines itself both as a research community and as a community of teachers. This may have a somewhat sinister suggestion that technology alone has agency, but this history (made of histories) is not principally about computers. It is about people-the teachers and scholars who have adapted the computer to their personal and professional purposes. From the authors' perspectives, change in technology drives changes in the ways we live and work, and we, agents to a degree in control of our own lives, use technology to achieve our human purposes. REVIEW: . . . This book reminds those of us now using computers to teach writing where we have been, and it brings those who are just entering the field up to date. More important, it will inform administrators, curriculum specialists, and others responsible for implementing the future uses of technology in writing instruction. - Computers and Composition

Re-imagining Computers and Composition

Re-imagining Computers and Composition
Author: Gail E. Hawisher
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1992
Genre: English language
ISBN:

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Computer-assisted Instruction in Composition

Computer-assisted Instruction in Composition
Author: Cynthia L. Selfe
Publisher: Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1986
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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Intended for writing teachers and administrators of middle school through college writing programs, this guide suggests how to translate approaches to teaching composition into computer assisted instruction (CAI) software. The book encourages writing teachers to see themselves as composition specialists who can team up with specialists in computer programming and educational field-testing in order to increase their own effectiveness in the classroom. Each chapter describes one step in the process of designing CAI software. The chapters discuss the following: (1) identifying assumptions about writing and pedagogy; (2) getting started on a CAI project; (3) working with a design team; (4) making pedagogical decisions about a CAI lesson; (5) integrating response and evaluation into a CAI lesson; (6) thinking about screen display; (7) field testing a CAI lesson; and (8) spreading the word about CAI software. Worksheets for each step in the design process, suitable for copying, are included. (SRT)

Writing On-line

Writing On-line
Author: James L. Collins
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1985
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

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Integrating composing and computing / Elizabeth A. Sommers -- A writing teacher's guide to computerese / James L. Collins -- A writer (and teacher of writing) confronts word processing / Peter R. Stillman -- Selecting word processing software / Michael Spitzer -- Word processing and the integration of reading and writing instruction / Linda L. Bickel -- Word processing in high school writing classes / Shirlee Lindemann and Jeanette Willert -- The electronic pen: computers and the composing process / Cynthia L. Slefe -- Prewriting and computing / James Strickland -- Revising and computuing / Gail G. Womble -- Teaching literature using word processing / John F. Evans -- Error correction and computing / Glynda A. Hull and William L. Smith -- Realities of computer analysis of compositions / Donald Ross -- Looking in depth at writers: computers as writing medium and research tool / Lillian Bridwell and Ann Duin.

Writing at Century's End

Writing at Century's End
Author: Lisa Gerrard
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1987
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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