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Updated, 8-27-2007

Selected Bibliography

This is a limited list of sources related to computers and writing and rhetoric in general. Most of the entries refer to texts discussed in the course, suggested readings, and online texts from the links page. Other entriess will be added on a semi-regular basis.

Rhetoric:

Bitzer, Lloyd F. "The Rhetorical Situation." Philosophy and Rhetoric 1.1 (1968): 1-14.

Bizzell, Patricia and Bruce Herzberg. The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 1990.

Covino, William and David Jolliffe. Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, Boundaries. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1995.

Crowley, Sharon and Debra Hawhee. Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1999.

Gage, John T. "On 'Rhetoric' and 'Composition.'" An Introduction to Composition Studies. Ed. E. Lindemann and Gary Tate. New York: Oxford U P, 1991. 15-32.

Fuller, Steve. Philosophy, Rhetoric, and the End of Knowledge: the Coming of Science and Technology Studies. Madison, WI: U of Wisconsin P, 1993. [Q175 .F926 1993 ]

Lanham, Richard. The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts. Chicago, IL: U Chicago P, 1993.

- - - . A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 1991.

Ong, Walter J. Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1971. [PN4061 .O6R5]

Warnick,Barbara. Critical Literacy in a Digital Era: Technology, Rhetoric, and the Public Interest. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002. [QA76 .W2395 2002]

- - - . "Rhetorical Criticism in New Media Environments." Rhetoric Review 20.1/2 (Spring 2001): 60-65.

Welch, Kathleen. Electric Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric, Oralism, and a New Literacy. Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 2000.

Complexity Theory:

Arthur, W. Brian. "Why do things become more complex?" Scientific American 268.5 (1995): 144.

Bak, Per and Kan Chan. "Self-Organized Criticality." Scientific American (January 1991): 46-53.

Buschev, Michael. Synergetics: Chaos, Order, and Self-Organization. London: World Scientific, 1994.

Byrne, David. Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences. Routledge, 1998.

Casti, John L. Complexification: Explaining a Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise. New York: HarperPerennial, 1995.

Cilliers, Paul. Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems. Rouledge, 1998.

Combs, Allen and Robin Robertson. Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995.

Corcoran, Elizabeth. "The Edge of Chaos." Scientific American 267.4 (1992): 17-22.

Coveney, Peter and Roger Highfield. Frontiers of Complexity. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1994.

Cowan, G. A. et al. Complexity: Metaphors, Models, and Reality. Perseus, 1999.

Cziko, Gary A. "Unpredictability and Indeterminism in Human Behavior: Arguments and Implications for Educational Research." Educational Researcher 18.3 (1989): 17-25.

Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. New York: Norton, 1987.

Doll, William. "Complexity in the Classroom." Educational Leadership 71. (1989): 65-70.

- - - . "Foundations for a Post-Modern Curriculum." Journal of Curriculum Studies 21.X (1989): 243-253.

- - - . "Curriculum Possibilities in a "Post"-Future." Journal of Curriculum and Supervision 8.4 (1993): 277-292.

- - - . "Prigogine: A New Sense of Order, A New Curriculum." Theory into Practice 25.1 (1986): 10-16.

Ennis, Catherine D. "Reconceptualizing Learning as a Dynamical System." Journal of Curriculum and Supervision 7.2 (1992): 115-30.

Gharajedaghi, Jamshid. Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity, A Platform for Designing Business Architecture. Butterworth-Heineman, 1999.

Goodwin, Brian. How the Leopard Lost its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Guastell, S. J. Chaos, Catastrophe and Human Affairs: Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics to Work, Organizations, and Social Evolution. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995.

Hesse, Doug. "Strange Attractors: Chaos Theory and Composition Studies." Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English. Seattle. 22-27 Nov. 1991.

Holland, J. H. Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995.

Kantor, David and William Lehr. Inside the Family. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1976.

Kauffman, Stuart A. "Antichaos and Adaptation." Scientific American August 1991: 78-84.

- - - . At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Kelly, Kevin. Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-biological Civilization. NY: Addison-Wesley, 1994.

Kim, Daniel. Introduction to Systems Thinking. Pegasus, 1999.

Lewin, Roger. Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

- - - . "The Right Connections." New Scientist (Supplement February 1993): 4-5.

Lucas, Chris. Quantifying Complexity Theory. March 2000. http://www.calresco.org/lucas/quantify.htm

Marion, Russ. The Edge of Organization: Chaos and Complexity Theories of Formal Social Systems. Conwin, 1999.

McShea, Daniel. "Complexity and Evolution: What every-body knows." Biology and Philosophy 6 (1991): 303-324.

Minsky, Marvin Lee. The Society of Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.

Nicolis, Gregoire and Ilya Prigogine. Exploring Complexity. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1989.

O'Connor, Joseph and Ian McDermott. The Art of Systems Thinking: Essential Skills for Creativity and Problem-Solving. Thorsons, 1997.

Pagels, Heinz. The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

Prigogine, Ilya and Isabelle Stengers. Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature. New York: Bantam, 1984.

Resnick, Mitchel. Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds. Cambridge MA: MIT P, 1994.

Ruthen, Russell. "Adapting to Complexity." Scientific American 268.1 (1993): 130-140.

Sanders, T. Irene. Strategic Thinking and the New Science: Planning in the Midst of Chaos, Complexity, and Change. Free Press/Simon & Schuster, May 1998.

Sawada, Daiyo and Michael T. Caley. "Dissipative Structures: New Metaphors for Becoming in Education." Educational Researcher 14.3 (1985): 13-19.

Smith, John B. Collective Intelligence in Computer-based Collaboration. Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1994.

Stewart, Ian. "does Chaos rule the Cosmos?" Discover 13.11 (1992): 56-63.

Taylor, Paul. "Social Epistemic Rhetoric and Chaotic Discourse." Re-Imagining Computer and Composition: Teaching and Research in the Virtual Age. Eds. Gail E. Hawisher and Paul LeBlanc. Portsmouth NH: Boynton/Cook, 1992. 131-148.

Waldrop, M. Mitchell. Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.

Networks:

Barney, Darin. The Network Society. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2004.

Buchanan, Mark. Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks. New York: Norton, 2002.

Burnett, Robert, and P. David Marshall. Web Theory: An Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Campbell, Jeremy. Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982.

Galloway, Alexander, and Eugene Thacker. The Exploit: A Theory of Networks. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

Poster, Mark. The Information Subject. Amsterdam: G+B Arts International, 2001.

Schuler, Douglas, and Peter Day, eds. Shaping the Network Society: The New Role of Civil Society in Cyberspace. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004.

Strogatz, Steven. Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order. New York: Hyperion, 2003.

Watts, Duncan. Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.

_____. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. New York: Norton, 2003.

Webster, Frank et al., eds. The Information Society Reader. New York: Routledge, 2004.

New Media:

Aarseth, Espen J. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. [P302.5 .A18 1997]

- - - . "Introduction: Ergodic Literature" Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. 2002. http://www.hf.uib.no/cybertext/Ergodic.html.

Brent, Doug. "Rhetorics of the Web: Implications for Teachers of Literacy." Kairos 2.1 (Spring 1997): http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.1/features/brent/bridge.html

Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print. 2nd ed. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001.

Brooke, Collin. "Making Room, Writing Hypertext." JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 19.2 (1999): 253-268.

- - - . "Perspective: Notes Toward the Remediation of Style." Enculturation 4.1 (Spring 2002): http://enculturation.gmu.edu/4_1/style

Cripps, Michael. "Between Linear and Nonlinear: The Research Essay in a Hypertextual Medium." 2002. http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cripps/cccc_hyperessay

Davis, Robert, and Mark Shadle. " 'Building a Mystery': Alternative Research Writing and the Academic Act of Seeking." CCC 51.3 (Feb 2000): 417-446.

Douglas, J. Yellowlees. The End of Books--or Books without End?: Reading Interactive Narratives. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 2000. [ PN3377.5.C57 D68 2000 ]

Hesse, Doug. "Saving a Place for Essayistic Literacy." Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies. Ed. G. Hawisher and C. Selfe. Logan/Urbana: Utah State U P, and NCTE, 1999. 34-48.

Ingraham, Bruce Douglas. "Scholarly Rhetoric in Digital Media (or: Now that we have the technology, what do we do with it?)" Journal of Interactive Media in Education (Sept. 2000): http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/00/ingraham/

Johnson-Eilola, Johndan. Nostalgic Angels: Rearticulating Hypertext Writing. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1997.

Joyce, Michael. Of Two Minds: Hypertext, Pedagogy, and Poetics. Ann Arbor: Michigan U P, 1995.

Kolb, David. "Socrates in the Labyrinth." Hyper/Text/Theory. Ed., George P. Landow. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins U P, 1994. 323-344.

Landow, George P. Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins U P, 1997.

- - - . "The Rhetoric of Hypermedia: Some Rules for Authors." Hypermedia and Literary Studies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991. 81-103.

Landow, George P., ed. Hyper/Text/Theory. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins U P, 1994.

Miles, Adrian. "Hypertext Syntagmas: Cinematic Narration with Links." Journal of Digital Information. 1.7 (December 2000). http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i07/Miles/.

- - - . "Hyperweb." Postmodern Culture 6.3 (May 1996). http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v006/6.3miles.html.

- - - ."Realism and a General Economy of the Link." Currents in Electronic Literacy 5 (Fall 2000): http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/fall01/miles/index.html

- - - . "Singin' In the Rain: A Hypertextual Reading." Postmodern Culture 8.2 (1998). http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v008/8.2miles.html

Moulthrop, Stuart. "The Shadow of an Informand: An Experiment in Hypertext Rhetoric." 1994. http://raven.ubalt.edu/staff/moulthrop/hypertexts/hoptext

Rosenberg, Jim. "Navigating Nowhere / Hypertext Infrawhere." 1994. http://www.well.com/user/jer/NNHI.html

Ryan, Marie-Laure, ed. Cyberspace Textuality. Bloomington: Indiana U P, 1999.

Vielstimmig, Myka. "Petals on a Wet Black Bough: Textuality, Collaboration, and the New Essay." Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies. Ed. G. Hawisher and C. Selfe. Logan/Urbana: Utah State U P, and NCTE, 1999. 89-114.

Walker, Jill. "Hypertextual Criticism." Thesis. Dept. of Comparative Literature, University of Bergen, 1998. http://cmc.uib.no/jill/MA/index.html

Williams, Sean. "Theorizing a Perspective on WWW Argumentation." Dissertation. University of Washington, 1999. http://people.clemson.edu/~sean/arguing_on_the_web/

Literacy (Education):

Faigley, Lester. "Literacy After the Revolution: 1996 CCCC Chair's Address." Literacy Theory in the Age of the Internet. Ed. Todd Taylor and Irene Ward. New York: Columbia U P, 1998. 1-16.

Gilster, Paul. Digital Literacy. New York: Wiley, 1997.

- - - . "A Primer on Digital Literacy." Digital Literacy. 1997. http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/schools/sim/research/netlearn/gilster2.htm

- - - . "A New Digital Literacy: A Conversation with Paul Gilster." Educational Leadership 55.3 (Novermber 1997): http://www.ascd.org/readingroom/edlead/9711/pool.html

Haas, Christina. Writing Technology: Studies on the Materiality of Literacy. Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers, 1996.

Kress, Gunther. Literacy in the New Media Age. NY, NY: Routledge, 2003.

Petraglia, Joseph. Reality by Design: the Rhetoric and Technology of Authenticity in Education. Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum, 1998. [Johnson LB1062 .P42 1998]

Selfe, Cynthia L. Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: The Importance of Paying Attention. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois P, 1999. [Johnson LC149.5 .S45 1999]

Snyder, Ilana and Michael Joyce, eds. Page to Screen: Taking Literacy into the Electronic Era. London/New York: Routledge, 1998.

Sorapure, M., P Inglesby, and G. Yachtinsin. "Web Literacy: Challenges and Opportunities for Research in a New Medium." Computers and Composition 15.3 (1998): 409-24.

Tyner, Kathleen. Literacy in a Digital World: Teaching and Learning in the Age of Information. Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998.

Taylor, Todd W. and, Irene Ward, eds. Literacy Theory in the Age of the Internet. New York: Columbia U P, 1998. [LC149.5 .L49 1998]

Pedagogy (Writing):

Cole, Robert A. ed. Issues in Web-based Pedagogy: a Critical Primer. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. [Johnson LB1044.87 .I88 2000]

Eyman, Doug. "Hypertext in the Computer-Facilitated Writing Classroom." Kairos 1.2 (Summer 1996): http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.2/features/eyman/index.html

Gruber, Sibylle, ed. Weaving a Virtual Web: Practical Approaches to New Information Technologies. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2000.

Harrington, Susanmarie, Rebecca Rickly, and Michael Day eds. The Online Writing Classroom. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2000. [Johnson PE1404 .O45 2000]

Hawisher, Gail, and Cynthia Selfe, eds. Passions, Pedagogies, and Twenty-first Century Technologies. Logan, UT: Utah State U P, 1999.

Hawisher, Gail, et al. Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education, 1979-1994: A History. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1996.

Kalmbach, James. The Computer and the Page: Publishing, Technology, and the Classroom. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Pub. Corp, 1997.

Mason, Jean. "Hyperwriting: A New Process Model." The Writing Instructor (2001): http://www.writinginstructor.com/hypertexts/mason.

Moran, Charles. "Technology and the Teaching of Writing." A Guide to Composition Pedagogies. Eds., G. Tate, A. Rupiper, and K. Schick. Oxford U P, 2000. 203-23.

Palmquist, Mike, et al. Transitions: Teaching Writing in Computer-Supported and Traditional Classrooms. Greenwich, CN: Ablex, 1998. [Johnson PE1404 .T74 1998]

Tornow, Joan. Link/Age: Composing in the Online Classroom. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 1997.

Wysocki, Anne Frances, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Geoffrey Sirc. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2004.

Issues:

Bass, Randy. "Story and Archive in the 21st Century." College English 61.6 (July 1999): 659-70.

Birkerts, Sven. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age. Boston: Faber & Faber, 1994.

Brent, Doug. "E-Publishing and Hypertext Publishing." EJournal 6.3 (August 1996). http://www.hanover.edu/philos/ejournal/archive/v6n3/brent/edintro.html

Doheny-Farina, Stephen. Rhetoric, Innovation, Technology: Case Studies of Technical Communication in Technology Transfers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992. [T10.5 .D64 1992]

Handa, Carolyn, and Richard A. Lanham ed. Computers and Community: Teaching Composition in the Twenty-First Century. 1990.

Hawisher, Gail and Cynthia Selfe. "Reflections on Computers and Composition at the Century's End." Page to Screen: Taking Literacy into the Electronic Era. Ed. Ilana Snyder. London/New York: Routledge, 1998. 3-19.

Herrington, Tyanna K. Controlling Voices: Intellectual Property, Humanistic Studies, and the Internet. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.

Holdstein, D. and C. Selfe, eds. Computers and Writing: Theory, Research, Practice. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1990.

Kynell, Teresa C. and Michael G. Moran, eds. Three Keys to the Past: the History of Technical Communication. Stamford, CT: Ablex Pub. Corp., 1999. [T10.5 .T48 1999]

LeCourt, Donna. "Critical Pedagogy in the Computer Classroom: Politicizing the Writing Space." Computers and Composition 15:3 (1998): 275-295.

Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. [Johnson P96.T42 M35 2001]

Moulthrop, S., and Kaplan, N. "They Became What They Beheld: The Futility of Resistance in the Space of Electronic Writing." Literacy and Computers: The complications of teaching and learning with computers. Eds., C. Selfe & S. Hilligoss. New York: MLA, 1994. 220-237.

Nunberg, Geoffrey, ed. The Future of the Book. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996.

Porter, James. Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked Writing. Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1998.