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Writing Studies Responds to Technology

The field of Writing Studies has been responding to and theorizing the relationship of writing and technological inventions for decades. Writing is itself a technology that has been changing for hundreds (and even thousands) of years. From the advent of written language, to the invention of the eraser, to the development of the internet, scholars and practitioners have analyzed and innovated in response to constantly evolving challenges.  If you’d like to read more about this history—or include it as part of a course you are teaching—this section offers you a place to start.


History

  • Baron, Dennis E. A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2009. EBSCOhost.
  • Connors, Robert J. "Invention and Assignments in Composition-Rhetoric." Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory, and Pedagogy, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997, pp. 296–328. Project Muse.
  • Graff, Harvey J. "The nineteenth-century origins of our times." Literacy: A critical sourcebook (2001): 211-233.
  • Trimbur, John. "Literacy and the Discourse of Crisis." The politics of writing instruction: Postsecondary (1991): 277-95.

Past Technologies

AI

  • Akayoglu, Sedat, et al. New Directions in Technology for Writing Instruction. 1st ed. 2022., Springer International Publishing, 2022.
  • Wang, Zhijie. "Computer-Assisted EFL Writing and Evaluations Based on Artificial Intelligence: A Case from a College Reading and Writing Course." Library Hi Tech, vol. 40, no. 1, Jan. 2022, pp. 80–97.