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Carbone, Nick – Computers and Composition, 1993
Outlines a first-day lesson plan for a first-year writing class in which the instructor engages students at the outset in building an electronic online community. Provides step-by-step methods and discusses specific advice for what to do and not to do within the context of achieving an online emphasis. (HB)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Computers, Freshman Composition
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Smith, Susan Belasco – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 1992
The shift from limited-capacity personal computers to powerful workstation technology offers an environment for writing instruction that allows networking, simultaneous performance of many tasks, and tools for designing custom lessons and individual applications. At Allegheny College (Pennsylvania), a first-year writing course is supported…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Oriented Programs, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
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Mayers, Tim – Computers and Composition, 1996
Notes many networked composition classrooms can be considered "transitional;" focus of the classes is neither exclusively on print-oriented skills nor on electronic-literacy skills. Focuses on an instructor's first-year composition courses in a computerized environment. Outlines ways teachers may employ a portfolio pedagogy in networked…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Text
Neuwirth, Christine M.; And Others – 1988
This paper discusses "Comments," a computer tool developed to study computer support for response to writing. The paper presents two primary theoretical perspectives to support the use of response to writing in learning to write: (1) writing is a social act; and (2) writing is a skill whose acquisition requires more than one reader so…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education