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New Dimensions in Computers and Composition Studies

Patricia Sullivan & James E. Porter

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Opening Spaces: Writing Technologies and Critical Research Practices argues for a "postcritical research methodology" (a theoretical frame merging two often opposed inquiry paradigms) and applies this frame to the study of computers and writing: the book opens a space where theoretical scholarship and empirical research can interact. The authors view research as a set of critical and reflective practices that should be sensitive to the rhetorical situated-ness of participants and technologies and that should operate as a form of political and ethical action. The authors revisit the issue of the ethics and politics of research, but do so from the frame of postmodern rhetorical theory and feminist methodology.

"This fine book advances our understanding of critical research methodology, of the ethics and politics of research and its implications for writing technology. The authors are well-read in a number of different areas -- postmodern theory, feminist research methodology, ethics, and computers and composition -- and construct an important argument for methodology as praxis."

Gesa Kirsch
Wayne State University

"In its bridging of the classroom and the workplace, this book is more than timely: it gives us the theory we need for postsecondary education's felt need to make connections between classroom and community."

Charles Moran
University of Massachusetts

Patricia Sullivan teaches graduate rhetoric courses at Purdue University, where she directed the technical writing program for twelve years. James Porter has taught professional writing and rhetoric theory at Purdue University since 1988.