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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 12:21:00 EDT
- Sender: "Megabyte University (Computers & Writing)" <MBU-L@TTUVM1.BITNET>
- From: Joe Essid <ESSID@URVAX.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: writing pedagogy
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- Tim:
-
- The University of Richmond recently added a computer-supported writing
- classroom with networked machines capable of running up-to-date
- software. This left me scrambling to discover which pieces of software
- our faculty would like to use in the classroom. After working with
- several instructors who will work in the new room, we decided upon
- a few pieces of software for those new to teaching with computers:
-
- --Bedford's *Hotline* on-screen handbook. This comes as a freebie for those
- who adopt the *Bedford Handbook*; Bedford Books even gave us a site license.
- The software is limited in scope, since it only covers issues of mechanics,
- grammar, documentation, etc. We liked *Hotline* because it is very
- compatible with *WordPerfect 5.1*, which we use in our classroom. Students
- have also found *Hotline* very easy to use.
-
- --Daedalus. Actually, our University Computing office bought this one
- without asking any of us in the English Department, but we're all happy
- to have it. I'm a novice with this software, but we will begin to use
- it this year for collaborative writing assignments.
-
- --We wrote *WordPerfect* macros. Since *Hotline* does not discuss the
- writing process, writing-in-the-disciplines, etc., we wrote another
- set of on-screen helpers that deal with a range of topics. This was
- time-consuming, but CHEAP. It also enabled faculty in our writing-
- across-the-curriculm program to get involved with our project.
-
- Joe Essid
- University of Richmond (Essid@urvax.bitnet, Essid@urvax.urich.edu)
-