Why Teach Digital Writing?

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.

Cushman, Ellen, Danielle DeVoss, Jeffrey T. Grabill, Bill Hart-Davidson and Jim Porter. WIDE Research Center (2005). Articles>Education>Writing>Online

Reinventing the (Professional Writing) Major

I have been dwelling for some time with ideas for rethinking the professional writing major in response to phenomena that aren’t going away, such as the inadequacy of the university for life-long learning and the unsustainable way that public education is funded.

Grabill, Jeffrey T. WIDE Research Center (2009). Articles>Education>Technical Writing>Blogs