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Sunday, January 16, 2005
So Much, So Far, So What? Progress and Prediction in Technorhetoric - Bob Whipple, Jr. and Robert S. Dornsife, Jr; Karios
Because technorhetoric* is a recognized academic field (at least to its several hundred practitioners or one level or another, and to those familiar with its scholarship, which appears in major English journals as well as at least 4 online or print journals devoted to it), whose forward-looking nature renders it prone to pronouncements as to how “things will be”, and because it is important to assess any major enterprise by comparing outcomes to original claims, it follows that techno-rhetoricians have been making reflective and summative assertions about the nature of technological writing instruction. Cynthia Selfe (1999), Barbara Blakely Duffelmeyer (2000), and others have specifically called us to look carefully and critically at the implications of what we are doing as teachers of technologized literacy. We should look at the implications of the technology we use; we should “pay attention” (Selfe) to the intended and unintended consequences arising from our uses of technology; we should teach our students to be critical (Duffelmeyer) of the technologies we use and what those technologies imply.
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