Passions, Pedagogies and 21st Century Technologies »

Once again, Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe offer a volume that will set the agenda in the field of computers and composition scholarship for a decade. The technology changes that scholars of composition studies face as the next century opens couldn t be more dramatic or deserving of passionate study. While we have always used technologies (e.g., the pencil) to communicate with each other, the electronic technologies we now use have changed the world in ways that we have yet to identify or appreciate fully. Likewise, the study of language and literate exchange, even our understanding of terms like literacy, text, and visual, has changed beyond recognition, challenging even our capacity to articulate them.

As Hawisher, Selfe, and their contributors engage these challenges and explore their importance, they find themselves engaged in the messy, contradictory, and fascinating work of understanding how to live in a new world and a new century. The result is a broad, deep, and rewarding anthology of work at the cutting edge of computers and composition study.

Lingua Franca - Achola O. Pala

This edited collection, which includes essays by some of the most thoughtful teachers and scholars working in composition today, shows how technology has changed, and is changing, the meaning of literacy, teaching, ethics, and the self.