Philosophical Bases of Rhetoric and Composition Ph.D. Programs

Andrea A. Lunsford

Rhetoric Society Quarterly Vol. 25 (1995) pp. 247–48

Argues for deemphasis of hyperspecialization and narrow departmental structures and an emphasis on collective efforts, interdisciplinarity, and beyond-the-campus connections. Outlines shortcomings of Ph.D. programs in rhetoric and composition: (1)...

Writing, technologies, and the fifth canon

Andrea A. Lunsford

Computers and Composition Vol. 23, No. 2 pp. 169–177

Andrea Lunsford's keynote address to the 2005 Computers and Writing Conference at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, expands the definition of writing to include epistemic, multivocal, multimodal, and multimediated practices in the...

Language: English

IText: Future Directions for Research on the Relationship between Information Technology and Writing

Cheryl Geisler; Charles Bazerman; Stephen Doheny-Farina; Laura Gurak; Christina Haas; Johndan Johnson-Eilola; David S. Kaufer; Andrea Lunsford; Carolyn R. Miller; Dorothy Winsor; Joanne Yates

Journal of Business and Technical Communication Vol. 15, No. 3 (2001) pp. 269–308

Undertakes to build on a knowledge base and articulate issues involving ITexts (information technologies with texts at their core). Reviews existing foundations for a research program in IText and then scopes out issues for research over the next...