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Volume 24, Issue 3, 2007

Global Issues:
International Perspectives on Computers and Writing

Letter from the Guest Editor
Taku Sugimoto

Written arguments and collaborative speech acts in practising the argumentative power of language through chat debates
Leena I. Laurinen
Miika J. Marttunen

Implementing an open process approach to a multilingual online writing center:
The case of Calliope
Liesbeth Opdenacker
Luuk Van Waes

Weathering wikis:
Net-based learning meets political science in a South African university
Tony Carr
Andrew Morrison
Glenda Cox
Andrew Deacon

Text-making practices beyond the classroom context:
Private instant messaging in Hong Kong
Carmen K.M. Lee

Technologizing Africa:
On the bumpy information highway
Dwedor Morais Ford

Non-existence of systematic education on computerized writing in Japanese schools
Taku Sugimoto

“Wanted: Some Black Long Distance [Writers]”:
Blackboard Flava-Flavin and other AfroDigital experiences in the classroom
Carmen Kynard

On the bright side of the screen:
Material-world interactions surrounding the socialization of outsiders to digital spaces
Sally W. Chandler
Joshua Burnett
Jacklyn Lopez

Announcements

Computers and Composition Awards

Computers and Composition Special Issues

New Dimensions Book Series

Computers and Composition:
An International Journal

Computers and Composition is a professional journal devoted to exploring the use of computers in composition classes, programs, and scholarly projects. It provides teachers and scholars a forum for discussing issues connected to Image of journal covercomputer use. The journal also offers information about integrating digital composing environments into writing programs on the basis of sound theoretical and pedagogical decisions and empirical evidence.

Computers and Composition welcomes articles, reviews, and letters to the editors that may be of interest to readers, including descriptions of computer-based composition and/or reading instruction, discussions of topics related to multimodal composing; explorations of controversial ethical, legal, or social issues related to the use of computers in composition programs; discussions of professional development and teacher education; explorations of tenure and promotion issues for scholars who work in electronic environments; studies of digital literacy; and discussions of how computers affect the form and content of discourse, the process by which discourse is produced, or the impact discourses have on audiences.

The print journal, Computers and Composition, has existed since 1983. The online journal, Computers and Composition Online, was established in 1996. See History of the Journal for more information.