Dr. Harrington’s Blog

This chapter is from the text W510 students have been reading, Teaching Writing with Computers: An Introduction, edited by Pamela Takayoshi (an IUPUI alumna!) and Brian Huot. Janet Carey Eldred and Lisa Toner, writing for an audience of people who are just starting (or soon to be starting) to teach writing, outline ways writing technologies […]

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Stuart Selber is a professor of technical communication at Penn State University.  This piece was published in CCC, like several others we’ve read.  Selber writes, then, in a formal voice, and his vocabulary is often quite sophisticated.  But his aim is clear: he wants us to consider how functional literacy—an emphasis on doing interesting things […]

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This article is a written version of Kathleen Blake Yancey’s Chair’s address to the annual gathering of college composition teachers.  She delivered her speech to an audience of thousands of college writing teachers, in an auditorium in San Antonio, Texas, with two power point presentations on either side of the stage.  The side bar quotations […]

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