Describes the creation of Worlds Fair, a project that evolved over several years from a sketchy short-story idea into a full-blown Web-based multimedia project with over 80 contributors, and proved to be an education in incorporating visual rhetoric into composition pedagogy. (SG)

Considers how in the classroom, particularly, teachers should take advantage of the multiple aspects of narrative time constructed through hypertextual duration, frequency, and order. Uses an ethnographic study of two college courses to illustrate several of these opportunities as they subvert the dominant orders of textuality totalized by…

Focuses on the widened perspective of network writing and offers ways to understand its value to the writing classroom. (MG)

Discusses the New York Institute of Technology's On-line Campus (OLC) program and then examines difficulties that arise in adapting a traditional course syllabus and structure to the "conceptual" classroom of a fully online composition class. Proposes an evolving syllabus as one solution to these difficulties. Discusses issues raised by…

Advocates a view of language using the notion of "interfaces," which includes both technology and linguistic devices of different kinds. Suggests that this extended interface concept is useful in the classroom because it may help the writing student adopt a richer view of language and a more complex understanding of the relation between language…

Examines when and why a "safe" approach to visual design for Web pages is attractive to writers and writing teachers. Considers typical reasons for choosing a "safe" approach to designing the visual dimensions of Web pages, traditional sources in print graphics and writing for safe advice about visual design, and design…

Presents a comparative analysis of two pieces of computer-based interactive multimedia whose words are similar but visual structures different. Argues that the visual aspects of these texts are "idea" and "assertion," doing the work of "content" and "information." Suggests that educators need to expand or…

Presents a comparative analysis of two pieces of computer-based interactive multimedia whose words are similar but visual structures different. Argues that the visual aspects of these texts are "idea" and "assertion," doing the work of "content" and "information." Suggests that educators need to expand or…

Explores, in the first of two articles, the possible consequences of electronic technology for writing instruction. Examines the relationships among teaching writing, technical writing, science literature, Michael Serres, knowledge-making, and electronic technology. (SR)

Explores, in the second of two articles, the possible consequences of electronic technology for writing instruction. Examines the relationships among teaching writing, technical writing, science literature, Michael Serres, knowledge-making, and electronic technology. (SR)

Gives historical background of the achievement of Ellis Page and his attempt to create a means by which computers could be used for analyzing and evaluating student writings. Provides critical reception of the original studies by Page. Discusses three current computer approaches to the task of evaluating student writing. (HB)

Argues that students can use electronic bulletin boards to create a single shared text that can be added to as personal time allows. Notes that use of electronic bulletin boards allows valuable class time to be set aside for other instructional strategies. (RS)

Notes that preparing manuals electronically is a growing requirement for technical writing professionals and that technical writers now often work concurrently with illustrators, designers, and engineers. Discusses how, using a desktop computer and adapting some software solutions, students can produce "professional" engineering diagrams and…

Presents a cautionary tale for writing teachers who may be unaware of opposition awaiting students whose identities are being shaped by their experiences on the Web. Interviews openly gay, lesbian, and bisexual people from Columbus, Ohio, who are associated with the Web, to begin discovering a sound pedagogy sensitive to and supportive of students…

Explains the visual and computing demands of Web-site authoring in a junior level, undergraduate honors course at a large public university. Argues that the students in this course--highly literate and skilled in the production of conventional printed academic writing--performed much like basic writers when challenged with acquiring a broad set of…