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Watkins, James Ray, Jr. – Computers and Composition, 1999
Offers a narrative of the collaborative creation of a HyperCard hypertext called the E.A.R., and describes how the ideas developed in that project were adapted into a first-year composition course. Hopes to gain insight into both the larger aims of the border crossings central to bell hooks' ongoing project and the more local goals of hypertext…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Hypermedia

Urion, Marilyn Vogler – Computers and Composition, 1995
Discusses Julia Kristeva's notion of text--the tension between the semiotic and the symbolic--and how the tension can be made visible through typeface variation and other shaping techniques possible with word-processing software. Shares ways the author encourages students in first-year English classes to explore possibilities for incorporating…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English Instruction, Freshman Composition, Higher Education