Computers and Composition
2001 Volume 18, Number 1
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 7
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Letter from the Guest Editor: Digital Rhetoric, Digital Literacy, Computers, and Composition
Carolyn Handa
Describes how this special issue collects a group of thought-provoking essays to encourage both writing teachers and the members of the more specialized field of Computers and Writing to consider... More
pp. 1-10
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Virtual urbanism
Geoffrey Sirc
Visual literacy implies a poetics of technology, one rooted in basic human passion. The visual, then, is seen as demographic: the form-patterns people actually make in their lives, answering basic ... More
pp. 11-19
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Part 1: thinking out of the pro-verbal box
Sean D Williams
As the World Wide Web and other visual media gain prominence in students’ lives, we, as teachers of composition, have to re-evaluate our strict adherence to the verbal medium. If our classrooms... More
pp. 21-32
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The problem of electronic argument: a humanist’s perspective
Michele S. Shauf
This article attempts to explain the absence of a new rhetoric, as repurposed for electronic media. Such a rhetoric would provide, among other things, a blueprint for electronic arguments conducted... More
pp. 33-37
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“Light green doesn’t mean hydrology!”: toward a visual–rhetorical framework for interface design
Clay Spinuzzi
The utility of metaphor as a visual–rhetorical design framework has diminished dramatically, and continues to erode. Metaphor has two important limitations as it is commonly applied in interface... More
pp. 39-53
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Reading the Web as fetish
Christy Desmet
Although theorists have defined hypertext as an iconoclastic medium that debunks traditional literary concepts as the “author” and “work,” in practice students can regard information on the World... More
pp. 55-72
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The art of ALT: toward a more accessible Web
John M. Slatin
Continuing innovations in pedagogical uses of the Web are consistent with our discipline’s long-standing commitment to the expansion of literacy. Surging interest in multimedia and visual rhetoric ... More
pp. 73-81