Why Teach Digital Writing?
http://www.wide.msu.edu/widepapers/why_teach_digital

Cushman, Ellen, Danielle DeVoss, Jeffrey T. Grabill, Bill Hart-Davidson and Jim Porter
WIDE Research Center
2005

Abstract:

Computers are not 'just tools' for writing. Networked computers create a new kind of writing space that changes the writing process and the basic rhetorical dynamic between writers and readers. Computer technologies have changed the processes, products, and contexts for writing in dramatic ways—and writing instruction needs to change to suit how writing is produced in digital spaces.