Electronic Communities in Writing Instruction:
A Beginners Guide

Intro

Teachers

Students

History

Texts

Computers and Writing Reading List
(with other related theoretical and pedagogical texts)

Aarseth, Espen J. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. Baltimore: Johns-Hopkins UP, 1997.

Anderson, Daniel and Smith, Erin. "Technopoetics." May 2000. http://terrorenglish.net/technopoetics/ (4 October 2002).

Bahktin, Mikel. "Discourse in the Novel." The Dialogic Imagination. Ed. Michael Holquist. Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: U of Texas P,
1981.

Barber, John and Grigar, Dene, eds. New Worlds, New Words: Exploring Pathways for Writing about and in Electronic Environments. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 2001.

Baron, Dennis. "From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies." Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies. Ed. Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe. Logan: Utah State UP, 1999. 15-33.

Belenky, Mary Field, et al. Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind. New York: Basic, 1986.

Berlin, James. Rhetoric and Reality. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987.

_____. "Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories." The
Writing Teacher's Sourcebook. Ed. Gary Tate et al. 3rd. ed. New York:
Oxford UP, 1981. 9-21.

Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of
Writing. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991.

Bolter, David Jay and Grusin, Richard. Remediation: Understanding New Media. MIT: Cambridge, 1999.

Bruffee, Kenneth A. "Collaborative Learning and the Conversation of Mankind.'"
Cross Talk in Comp Theory. Ed. Victor Villanueva, Jr. Urbana: NCTE, 1997. 393-414.

Butler, Wayne M. and Kinneavy, James L. "The Electronic Discourse
Community: god, Meet Donald Duck. Hairston, Maxine. "Diversity,
Ideology, and Teaching Writing." The Writing Teachers Sourcebook. 3rd
ed. Ed., Gary Tate, Edward J. Corbett, and Nancy Myers. New York:
Oxford UP, 1994. 400-414.

Day, Michael. "Fear and Loathing in Paradise: Dissensus, Discontent, and Discouragement on the MOO." Kairos 2.1. 1996. http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.2/coverweb/dis.html

Dilger, Bradley. "The Ideology of Ease." Journal of Electronic Publishing.
6.1 September 2000. http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-01/dilger.html

Douglas, J. Yellowlees. The End of Books-Or Books Without End?: Reading Interactive Narratives. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2000.

English, Joel. "MOO-based Metacognition." Kairos 3.1. Fall 1996.http://www.bsu.edu/classes/english/k3.1/moo.html

Faigley, Lester. Fragments of Rationality. 1992. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P,
1995.

Fanderclai, Tari Lin. "MUDs in Education: New Environments, New Pedagogies"
Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine. 1 January 1995.
http://www.ibiblio.org/cmc/mag/1995/jan/fanderclai.html (3 Oct 2000).

Fishman, Stephen and Lucille Parkinson McCarthy. "Community in the
Expressivist Classroom: Juggling Liberal and Communitarian Visions."
College English 57 (Jan 1995): 62-81.

Foster, Derek. "Community and Identity in the Electronic Village." Internet
Culture. Ed. David Porter. Routledge: New York, 1997. 23-38.

Galin, Jeff and Latchaw, Joan, eds. The Dialogic Classroom: Teachers Integrating Computer Technology, Pedagogy, and Research, NCTE, 1999.

Handa, Carolyn. Computers and Community: Teaching Composition in the
Twenty-First Century. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 1990.

Harrington, Susanmarie, Rickly, Rebecca, and Day, Michael, eds. The Online Writing Classroom. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 2001.

Harris, Leslie. "Using MOOs to Teach Composition and Literature."
Kairos 2.1. Summer 1996. http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.2/coverweb/Harris/contents.htm

Harris, Joseph. A Teaching Subject: Composition since 1966. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice, 1997. 76-90.

Hawisher, Gail; LeBlanc, Paul; Moran, Charles, and Selfe, Cynthia. Computers
and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education 1979-1994: A
History. Norwood: Ablex, 1996.

Hawisher, Gail E. and Selfe, Cynthia L. "the Rhetoric of Technology and the
Electronic Writing Class." The Writing Teachers Sourcebook. 3rd. ed. Ed.,
Gary Tate, Edward J. Corbett, and Nancy Myers. New York: Oxford UP,
1994. 381-390.

Hesse, Doug. "Saving a Place for Essayistic Literacy." Hawisher, Gale and Selfe, Cynthia, eds. Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies.
Urbana: NCTE, 1999. 34-48.

Holdstein, Deborah and Selfe, Cynthia, eds. Computers and Writing: Theory, Research, and Practice. New York, NY: Modern Language Association, 1990.

Holmevik, Jan Rune and Haynes, Cynthia. MOOniversity. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.

_____, eds. High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.

Howard, Tharon W. A Rhetoric of Electronic Communities. Greenwich: Ablex, 1997.

Lanham, Richard A. The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.

LeFevre, Karen Burke. Invention as a Social Act. Carbondale: Southern Illinios
UP, 1987.

Leland, Bruce. "The Construction of Selves in Class Email Communities" Computers and Writing Conference, Logan, Utah, May 1996. http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/wiu/cwc96.htm

_____. "E-Genres: Form, Content, and Medium in Class Electronic Discussions" Computers and Writing Conference, Rapid City, SD, May 1999.
http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/cw99.htm

Ong, Walter S.J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word.
1992. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Rodriguez, Dawn and Rodriguez, Raymond. "How Word Processing Is Changing Our Teaching: New Technologies, New Approaches, New Challenges." The Writing Teachers Sourcebook. 3rd. ed. Ed., Gary Tate, Edward J. Corbett, and Nancy Myers. New York: Oxford UP, 1994. 391-399.

Sloane, Sarah J. "The Haunting Story of J: Genealogy As A Critical Category in
Understanding How a Writer Composes." Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st
Century Technologies. Ed. Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. Logan,
UT: Utah State UP, 1999. 49-65.

Snyder, Ilana, ed. Page to Screen: Taking Literacy into the Electronic Era. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Spooner, Michael, and Kathleen Yancey. "Postings on a Genre of Email." College Composition and Communication 47 (1996): 252-78.

_____. A Single Good Mind: Collaboration, Cooperation, and the Writing Self. College Composition and Communication 49.1February 1998: 45-62.

Todorov, Tzvetan. Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle. Trans. Wlad Godzich. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1984.

Tornow, Joan. Link/Age. Logan: Utah State UP, 1997.

Trimbur, John. "Consensus and Difference in Collaborative Learning." Cross Talk in Comp Theory. Ed. Victor Villanueva, Jr. Urbana: NCTE, 1997. 439-456.

Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Touchstone, 1995.

Veilstimmig, Myka. "Petals on a Wet, Black Bough: Textuality, Collaboration, and the New Essay." Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies. Ed. Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 1999. 89-114.

Warschauer, Mark. Electronic Lliteracies: Language, Culture, and Power in Online Education. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999.