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

by Charles Moran and Gail E. Hawisher

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567502520
• ISBN13: 9781567502527
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.0"