Computers and the Humanities
1990 Volume 24, Number 1
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 6
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Integrating Word Processing Skills with Revision Skills
Erna Kelly & Donna Raleigh
Recommends that writing teachers integrate word processing and revision strategies when teaching how to diagnose and correct structural writing problems. Presents exercises employing these methods ... More
pp. 5-13
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Beyond Argumentation and Comparison/Contrast: Extending the Socrates CAI Design Principles to Classroom Teaching and the Interpretation and Production of Other Forms of Discourse
Thomas D. Bacig
Examines relationships between critical thinking and writing. Compares a pencil-and-paper and computer-assisted versions of a process/model program to a traditional composition program. Reports... More
pp. 15-41
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Paperless Writing Revisited
Edward M. Jennings
Uses an asynchronous computer network to conduct an experimental college writing class. Examines how paperless technology alters student-mentor relationships and encourages coaching and practice... More
pp. 43-8
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Radical Changes in Class Discussion Using Networked Computers
Jerome Bump
University of Texas (Austin) freshman and senior English literature students and graduate humanities students tested a synchronous local area computer network's applicability for classroom... More
pp. 49-65
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Spectrographic Analysis and Patterns in Pronunciation
Garry Molholt
Examines how sound spectrographs provide students learning a second language direct, visual feedback that is more useful than instructors' comments on articulation. Shows spectrographs of words... More
pp. 81-92
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The Role of Computer-Assisted Learning in a Proficiency-Based Language Curriculum
James E. Brown & Gary R. Jahn
Explains the need for and operations of computerized instructional and drill programs for teaching beginning college-level Russian. Describes two such programs developed at the University of... More
pp. 93-103