Computers and Composition
2000 Volume 17, Number 3
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 5
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Developing sound tutor training for online writing centers: creating productive peer reviewers
Lee-Ann M Kastman Breuch & Sam J Racine
It is our experience that tutors trained for face-to-face writing centers are not adequately prepared for the challenges they encounter working with online writing centers. The purpose of our... More
pp. 245-263
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Characteristics of interactive oral and computer-mediated peer group talk and its influence on revision
Beth L Hewett
This article details a functional and qualitative study of interactive oral and computer-mediated communication (CMC)-generated (Norton Connect) peer response group talk and its influence on... More
pp. 265-288
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Critical computer literacy: computers in first-year composition as topic and environment
Barbara Blakely Duffelmeyer
Because of the persuasive and positive cultural discourse about technology, some first-year students—who are increasingly asked to develop their postsecondary literacy skills in a classroom that... More
pp. 289-307
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Investigating the practices of student researchers: patterns of use and criteria for use of internet and library sources
Vicki Tolar Burton & Scott A Chadwick
For college writers, a key element of academic literacy is the ability to locate, select, evaluate, synthesize, and cite outside sources in their own writing. This study surveyed 543 college... More
pp. 309-328
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Computerized grammar checkers 2000: capabilities, limitations, and pedagogical possibilities
Alex Vernon
Since commercial word-processing software integrated grammar checkers in the early 1990s, the composition community has scaled back its printed work on this technology to pursue more urgent issues ... More
pp. 329-349
