Our mission
will certainly benefit from exploiting the various classic dimensions of
network technology in specific curriculum programs in writing. What should
we be working on? What would you expect from an old man except the "same
old, same old." What else should we should do with the marvelous tools
but provide many liberal arts options. Our emerging, highly collaborative
interactions will and must recover some classic, legendary classical rhetorical
experiences. Here are a few principles:
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Building understandings of what was not understood
about new theories for invention, organization, style, memory, and delivery.
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Designing our tools to support a revitalized
discourse for thinking about the thinking of composition.
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Creating mementos of proof for those moments
of truth by teaching novice writers to recognize and behave more like experienced
writers.
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Developing day-to-day technology integration
activities in a variety of real writing settings.
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Designing our instructional discourse to support
writers engaged in writing and responding.
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Building places and Internet learning zones
to know and articulate important things in personally useful and in publicly
usable ways.
Where do we want to be? Steeped in the liberal
arts tradition, inspired by all nine muses, watched over by Apollo, and
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Cynthia Haynes