digital literacy

To assure our place as a legitimate academic field we need to create assessment models that measure the skills we value and teach. At the 2001 Computers and Writing conference in Muncie, Gail Hawisher noted that C&W did not emerge as an academic discipline until we were able to sustain a vigorous critique of our work. ⁸ Prior to the emergence of that critique, C&W may have been a movement, but it was not legitimated as a field. To further our institutional legitimation, we must turn our attention to the issue of institutional assessment. We must be able to demonstrate the effectiveness of our pedagogies.