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Selfe, Cynthia L. – 1987
To provide students with the literacy strategies necessary to function successfully in a technologically supported society, teachers must realize how the multilayered grammars of computers continue to affect their definition of literacy. Computer-supported writing centers are an excellent site for teachers to share ideas about this changing…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Higher Education, Literacy
Herron, Jeannine – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1992
Asserts that writing must have as honored a place in the first grade curriculum as reading. Discusses the need for computers in writing labs, word processing in first grade, cooperative learning, staff development, and holistic projects and assessment. Describes the implementation of these ideas in Los Altos, California. (PRA)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Grade 1, Holistic Approach, Holistic Evaluation
Schwartz, Helen J. – ADE Bulletin, 1987
Provides guidelines and practical advice for planning and running a computer lab for writing. (NKA)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, English Departments, English Instruction
Barker, Thomas T. – 1985
The English Microlab Registry (EMR) was first designed as a database, or research tool, for planners of English microlabs in order to give them access to information about all aspects of microlab management. But EMR also provides descriptive data about what a microlab is and may well provide insight into whether those labs will survive. An…
Descriptors: English Departments, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Learning Laboratories

Kemp, Fred – Writing Center Journal, 1987
Evaluates several views of the relationship between computers and education, and criticizes the use of artificial intelligence and natural language processing software for evaluating student writing. Recommends utilizing programs that use heuristic methods to ask students a series of questions to help them organize and compose papers. (SKC)
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Reviews, Computer Uses in Education
Heap, James L. – 1987
Based on an examination of the organizational features of editing during collaborative computer writing in a combined first and second grade classroom in a Catholic school during the 1985-86 school year, this paper argues that there is a fundamental difference between collaborative and solo computer writing, and that collaboration during computer…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Editing, Foreign Countries, Group Dynamics