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Carbone, Nick; And Others – Computers and Composition, 1993
Examines the ways in which writing teachers present themselves in a virtual classroom--a computer networked first-year composition classroom. Discusses how the teachers' online presence relate to their off-line, "live" presence. Suggests that differences among teacher are more important than similarities. (RS)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Freshman Composition, Higher Education

Batson, Trent – Computers and Composition, 1993
Employs three approaches in a summative evaluation of ENFI (Electronic Networks for Interaction), a local area network used to teach writing through the use of software that supports real-time communication. Suggests that the ENFI setting allows a writing teacher to more easily model the creation of a writing persona. (RS)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Higher Education, Teacher Behavior, Teacher Role

Klem, Elizabeth; Moran, Charles – Computers and Composition, 1992
Observes two writing teachers, enthusiastic about computers, teaching for the first time in networked computer classrooms. Finds resistance to change attributable to unfamiliarity with hardware and software, the need to cope with print text and electronic text, and conflict between models of writing instruction brought to the facility and that…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Computer Networks, Higher Education, Teacher Attitudes

Romano, Susan – Computers and Composition, 1993
Examines some of the issues attached to the egalitarianism narrative, which has rapidly gained credence in the composition field and which serves as a powerful term of authorization. Pursues the question of egalitarianism in the computer networked composition classroom using an interpretive methodology. (RS)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Hispanic Americans
Computer-Mediated Communication and High-Apprehensive Writers: Rethinking the Collaborative Process.

Mabrito, Mark – Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1992
Examines groups of business writing students containing high- and low-apprehensive writers, communicating about writing in both a face-to-face setting and through electronic mail. Concludes that, for both types of writers, collaboratively planning documents on e-mail enhanced the collaborative process. (MM)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Case Studies, Collaborative Writing, Computer Networks
Batschelet, Margaret; Woodson, Linda – 1991
An interim study measured changes in attitudes towards writing and the writing process among basic writing students taught in an electronic classroom (consisting of 25 networked computers). Students in six sections of basic writing which used the electronic classroom for at least 50% of their classroom time, and six control sections which did not…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Higher Education
Spaulding, Cheryl L.; Lake, Daniel – 1991
This study investigated the effects of having student writers use a set of networked computers to assist them in their writing lessons. Subjects were 15 students who were designated by their school district as remedial writers because they did not pass a writing competency test in their freshman year. For 10 weeks students participated in the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Collaborative Writing, Computer Networks, Cooperative Learning
Bruce, Bertram C.; Peyton, Joy Kreeft – 1994
Classroom-based, real-time communication networks are in wide use for college-level reading and writing instruction and are now being adopted for use in elementary and secondary classes. Teachers use this network-based approach to literacy instruction (known as ENFI--Electronic Networks for Interaction) to support authentic reading and writing,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Computer Networks, Elementary Secondary Education
Sykes, Lynn; Uber, Nancy – 1995
A study focused on teachers who have worked in computerized, networked writing classrooms at Purdue University (Indiana) for several year. Each of the subjects was a teaching assistant in the Purdue English Department, and the courses involved were upper division technical writing courses. Three theoretical approaches underpinned the study:…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computers
Bruce, Bertram; Peyton, Joy Kreeft – 1992
Noting that teachers and students who actually use an educational innovation in a classroom setting recreate it, this paper analyzes the implementation of ENFI (Electronic Networks for Interaction), an innovation that uses computers and local area networks in the teaching of writing. The paper presents ENFI's idealization in terms of its…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Networks, Educational Innovation, Higher Education

Palmquist, Michael E. – Computers and Composition, 1993
Examines different ways in which a range of computer-mediated communication tools can be used in similar classroom settings. Argues that curriculum design for writing classes is inextricably tied to how computer communications will be used in the class. Presents results of a semester-long study of two first-year writing classes using computers.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Collaborative Writing, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education

Burley, Hansel – Computers and Composition, 1998
Describes how using conferencing software in a computer-assisted writing environment became a catalyst for a distinctive learning ecology that interrelated prosocial student behaviors, learner-centered teaching, and assessment. Argues that the conferencing class not only helped students apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills in…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Cooperative Learning, Group Dynamics

Orr, Priscilla – Computers and Composition, 1998
Describes how an online conference was used in a graduate poetry class with students not accustomed to using technology in their coursework. Suggests that it extended the depth and quality of discussion, opening up new areas of discourse; and that students went beyond assigned topics to create and engage in their own discourse enriched by their…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Cooperative Learning, Course Descriptions
Ollila, L.; And Others – 1993
A study investigated whether computers would enable students to develop individual working writing environments. The programs that the fourth-grade students used were Hypercard, Clip Art, and MacWrite. Students worked with each of the programs and talked about what they were thinking while using the computer. A constant flow of teachers, staff,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Computer Networks, Creative Writing, Grade 4
Sullivan, Patricia, Ed.; Dautermann, Jennie, Ed. – 1996
Contending that technology, especially when it networks writers to other writers, is more than a mere scribal tool, this book presents 14 essays designed to ignite interest in technology as one of the material conditions of workplace writing contexts. After an introduction ("Issues of Written Literacy and Electronic Literacy in Workplace…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Networks, Editing, Electronic Mail
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