Books by Kristine L Blair
Papers by Kristine L Blair
Computers and Composition, Dec 1, 2003
... (1999). Technological fronts: Lesbian lives on the line. In Kristine Blair &amp... more ... (1999). Technological fronts: Lesbian lives on the line. In Kristine Blair & Pamela Takayoshi (Eds.), Feminist cyberscapes: Mapping gendered academic spaces (pp. 2140). ... Blair, 1998.Kristine Blair, Literacy, dialogue, and difference in the electronic contact zone. ...
Profession, Nov 1, 2009
In their introduction to the collection Multimodal Composition, Pamela Ta kayoshi and Cynthia Sel... more In their introduction to the collection Multimodal Composition, Pamela Ta kayoshi and Cynthia Selfe assert that "[i]f composition instruction is to remain relevant, the definition of 'composition' and 'texts' needs to grow and change to reflect people's literacy practices in new digital communi cation environments" (3). Although Takayoshi and Selfe are emphasizing undergraduate instruction, a parallel argument applies to journal editors in English studies and beyond: as scholars heed the call, they require contexts that enable rather than constrain scholarship about teaching and research ing in digital environments. Certainly, the desire to create such an intellec tual community was behind the development of Computers and Composition in 1983, originally edited by Cynthia Selfe and Kate Kiefer and since 1988 by Gail Hawisher and Selfe. Twenty-some years later, Computers and Com position is an international journal with both print and online components, supported by a strong cohort of digital literacy and composition scholars
Computers and Composition, Mar 1, 2011
Computers and Composition, 2008
Utah State University Press eBooks, Aug 15, 2017
College Composition and Communication, Dec 1, 2000
New Directions in Computers & Composition Studies Gail E. Hawisher and Cy... more New Directions in Computers & Composition Studies Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. Series Editors Feminist Cyberscapes: Mapping Gendered Academic Spaces Kristine Blair and Pamela Takayoshi, editors, 1999 Electronic Writing Centers: Computing in the Field of ...
With many English teachers now opting to teach writing and literature courses in electronic envir... more With many English teachers now opting to teach writing and literature courses in electronic environments, some of the teachers' most significant experiences in these environments have stemmed from their attempts to make technology available as a literacy tool for culturally diverse student populations. Computer-mediated communication can broaden the definition of writing to include concepts of multimedia and multi-literacy and address the necessary integration of text and visuals and foregrounding the elements of electronic environments requiring revision of teacher and student responses to students' texts. A writing assignment in an upper-level course in professional communication shows the need to work with student writers to develop revised evaluation practices and criteria that acknowledge collaborative writing, revising, and responding within an electronic medium as well as the ability to integrate visuals, texts, and sound to address the shifting definitions of literacy fostered by electronic writing classrooms. Although students and their teachers need to learn to view non-linear, multimedia, hypertextual communications as "writing," the extent to which these attitudes can change will necessitate not only a redefinition of textuality but also a redefinition of teaching and assessment. Teachers new to electronic environments should have the opportunity to be students in these settings, an important chance not only to understand the new technologies of literacy and the communication processes their own students will face in the classroom. (Contains 18 references.) (RS)
This chapter provides effective practices for instructors who want to transform alphabetic text-c... more This chapter provides effective practices for instructors who want to transform alphabetic text-centric assignments into multimodal ones in OWI contexts. By focusing on needs assessments, assignment options, tools selection, and assessment, the chapter advocates a shift from migrating and adapting onsite writing instruction to instead transforming it through a broadened definition of writing as multimodal composing that enables students to produce content as twenty-first century learners and citizens.
Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1995
The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado eBooks, Jun 19, 2018
The WAC Clearinghouse supports teachers of writing across the disciplines. Hosted by Colorado Sta... more The WAC Clearinghouse supports teachers of writing across the disciplines. Hosted by Colorado State University, and supported by the Colorado State University Open Press, it brings together scholarly journals and book series as well as resources for teachers who use writing in their courses. This book is available in digital formats for free download at wac.colostate.edu.
Projects that require students to perform ethnographic research can be a form of empowerment. Les... more Projects that require students to perform ethnographic research can be a form of empowerment. Lester Faigley argues that while ethnographic research still requires invention and other writing skills required of more traditional assignments, it has the added value of giving students the opportunity to explore their own locations within the culture. One such location would be internet newsgroups. These electronic communities are equally representative of the cultural assumptions and priorities given to various issues and, not unlike other media, range from conservative to liberal in their discussions of events, issues, and even people. Electronic ethnography is most easily implemented if students have access to a composition course taught in a computer-networked classroom. In many instances, gathering data about the newsgroup leads a student to new knowledge about his or her own cultural assumptions about people who participate in these groups. For example, in a collaborative paper about a group devoted to fitness, both the women and men's assumptions were that women would be concerned about their weight, while men would be concerned with health, not weight. Such binaries were lroken down for these students when through their own reading and participation they recognized that both women and men had self-esteem problems directly attributed to their bodies. Ultimately, the newsgroup can serve as a m:crocosm of cultural assumptions and attitudes that student participants may see as either harmful or helpful in the construction of both a personal and social identity through the technological access to community. (TB)
With the recent interest in the fifth century B.C. theories of Protagoras and Gorgias come assump... more With the recent interest in the fifth century B.C. theories of Protagoras and Gorgias come assumptions about the philosophical affinity of the Greek educator Isocrates to this pair of older sophists. Isocratean education in discourse, with its emphasis on collaborative political discourse, falls within recent definitions of a sophist curriculum. That is, skills learned in the sophistic classroom are applied directly to the "polis." Examination of Isocrates' writings shows that, for Isocrates, the most useful discourse is that which has a social end. Overall, Isocrates's educational theory favors social interaction through language, as well as probable rather than absolute knowledge. One elemont missing from contemporary composition instruction is just such an emphasis on public discourse. Furthermore, neo-sophistic pedagogical strategies can be based on Isocratean as well as Protagorean theory. These strategies allow students to voice their views publicly about localized student and community issues. Such assignments will involve not only written forums but also oral and electronic forums that are collaborative and epistemic in nature. Finally, the notion that the fostering of citizenship is an achievable goal in composition classes should not be overlooked, especially as instructors aid students in realizing that they can become part of ongoing public dialogues.
Computers and Composition, 1999
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