Table of Contents

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS....................VII INTRODUCTION Straddling the Virtual Fence Eric H. Hobson....................ix
ONE The Look and Feel of the OWL Conference Barbara Monroe....................3
TWO Email "Tutoring" as Collaborative Writing David Coogan....................25
THREE Reflection and Responsibility in (Cyber) Tutor Training: Seeing Ourselves Clearly on and off the Screen Rebecca Rickly....................44
FOUR WAC on the Web: Writing Center Outreach to Teachers of Writing Intensive Courses Sara Kimball....................62
FIVE Have You Visited Your Online Writing Center Today?: Learning, Writing, and Teaching Online at a Community College Clinton Gardner....................75
SIX The Other WWW: Using Intranets to Reconfigure the Who, When and Where of Network Supported Writing Instruction Kurt P. Kearcher....................85
SEVEN Wiring a Usable Center: Usability Research and Writing Center Practice Stuart Blythe....................103
EIGHT Drill Pads, Teaching Machines, and Programmed Texts: Origins of Instructional Technology in Writing Centers Neal Lerner....................119
NINE Virtual High School Writing Centers: A Spectrum of Possibilities Pamela B. Childers, Jeannette Jordan, James K. Upton....................137
TEN The Community College Mission and the Electronic Writing Center Ellen Mohr....................151
ELEVEN Random Memories of the Virtual Writing Center: The Modes-to-Nodes Problem Ray Wallace....................163
TWELVE Computers in the Writing Center: A Cautionary History Peter Carino....................171
THIRTEEN UnfURLed: 20 Writing Center Sites to Visit on the Information Highway Bruce Pegg....................197
FOURTEEN Computers and Writing Centers: An Annotated Bibliography Steve Sherwood....................216
WORKS CITED....................231
CONTRIBUTORS....................242
INDEX....................246