Publications

BOOKS

(single author)

Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: The Perils of Not Paying Attention. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.

Creating Computer-Supported Writing Facilities: A Blueprint for Action. Houghton, MI: Computers and Composition Press, 1989.
Computer-Assisted Instruction in Composition: Create your Own. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1986.


(co-author)

Literate Lives in the Information Age: Stories from the United States (with Gail Hawisher). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004.

Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition
(with Anne Wysocki, Johndan Johnson-Eilola; and Geoffrey Sirc). Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004.

Technical Communication, 2nd Edition, (with M. Lay, B. J. Wahlstrom, C. D. Rude, C. Selfe, J. Selzer, Eds.).  Boston:  Irwin/McGraw Hill.  2000. (Textbook)

Technical Communication (with M. Lay, B. Wahlstrom, S. Doheny-Farina, A. Duin, S. Little, C. Rude, J. Selzer, Eds.). Burr Ridge, IL: Irwin, 1994. (Textbook)

Writing in the Disciplines (with R. Jones and P. Bizarro). Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1997. (Textbook)

Literacy, Technology, and Society: Confronting the Issues (with Gail Hawisher). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997. (Textbook)

Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education, 1979-1994: A History (with G. Hawisher, P. LeBlanc, and C. Moran). Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1996.
 

(co-editor)

Picturing Texts, (L. Faigley, D. George, A. Palchik, C. Selfe; Eds.) New York: Norton, 2004. (Textbook)

Global Literacies and the World-Wide Web, (G. Hawisher and C. Selfe, Eds.)  London:  Routledge, 2000.

Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies. (G. Hawisher and C. Selfe, Eds.). Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1999.

Literacy, Technology, and Society: Confronting the Issues. (G. Hawisher and C. Selfe, Eds.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997. (Textbook)

Literacy and Technology. (C. Selfe and S. Hilligoss, Eds.). New York, NY: Modern Language Association, 1994.

Evolving Perspectives on Computers and Composition Studies: Questions for the 1990s. (G. Hawisher and C. Selfe, Eds.). Houghton, MI and Urbana, IL: Computers and Composition Press/NCTE, 1991.

Computers and Writing: Theory, Research, and Practice. (D. Holdstein and C. Selfe, Eds.). New York, NY: Modern Language Association, 1990.

Critical Perspectives on Computers in Composition Instruction. (G. Hawisher and C. Selfe, Eds.). Columbia University, NY: Teachers College Press, 1989.

Computers in English and Language Arts: The Challenge of Teacher Education. (C. Selfe, D. Rodrigues, and W. Oates; Eds.). Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1989.
 

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

(single author)

Digital Divisions: Cultural Perspectives on Information Technology. The English and Media Magazine, 2000, 42(3). (Online journal) p. 12-17.

Technology and Literacy: A Story about the Perils of Not Paying Attention. College Composition and Communication, 1999, 50(3), p. 411-436.

Contextual Evaluation in WAC Programs: Theories, Issues, and Strategies for Teachers. In Assessing Writing Across the Curriculum: Diverse Approaches and Practices, K. B. Yancey and B. Huot (Eds.). Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1997, p. 51-68.

Theorizing E-Mail for the Practice, Instruction, and Study of Literacy. In Electronic Literacies in the Workplace, P. Sullivan and J. Dautermann (Eds.). Urbana, IL and Houghton, MI: National Council of Teachers of English and Computers and Composition Press, 1996, p. 255-293.

The Task of Predicting the Future In Technical and Professional Communication Programs: Listening to the Stories of a New Generation of Ph.D. Graduates. ATTW Bulletin, 1994, 5(1), p. 9-12.

Preparing English Teachers for the Virtual Age: The Case for Technology Critics. In Re-imagining Composition in the Virtual Age, G. Hawisher and P. LeBlanc (Eds.). Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Heinemann, 1992, p. 24-42.

Technology as a Catalyst for Educational Reform in English Classes: Computer-Supported Writers' Conferences. In Constructing Rhetorical Education: From Classroom to Community, M. Secor and D. Charney (Eds.). Carbondale, IL: Southern University Press, 1992, p. 150-169.

Computer-Based Conversations and the Changing Nature of Collaboration. In New Visions of Collaborative Writing, J. Forman (Ed.). Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Heinemann, 1992, p. 147-169.

Style and Software Documentation: A Central Concern. In Perspectives on Software Documentation: Inquiries and Innovations, T. Barker (Ed.). Farmingdale, NY: Baywood Publishing Co., 1991, p. 45-59.

Technology in the English Classroom: Computers through the Lens of Feminist Theory. In Computers and Community, C. Handa (Ed.). Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Heinemann, 1990, p. 118-139.

English Teachers and the Humanization of Computers: Networking Communities of Writers and Readers. In On Literacy and Its Teaching, G. Hawisher and A. Soter (Eds.). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1990, p. 190- 205.

Redefining Literacy: The Multilayered Grammars of Computers. In Critical Perspectives on Computers and Composition Instruction, G. E. Hawisher and C. L. Selfe (Eds.). New York, NY: Teachers College Press, 1989, p. 3-15.

Computers and Writing: Casting a Broader Net with Theory and Research, Computers and the Humanities, 1988, 22, p. 57-66.

Computers in English Departments: The Rhetoric of Technopower, ADE Bulletin, Fall 1988, 90, p. 63-67.

The Humanization of Computers: Forget Technology, Remember Literacy, English Journal, 1988, 77(6), p. 69-71.

Teaching Word Processing in Composition Courses: Age, Gender, Computer Experience, and Learning Style, Computer- Assisted Composition Journal, 1988, 2(2), p. 75-88.

Creating a Computer Lab That Composition Teachers Can Live With, Collegiate Microcomputer, 1987, 5(2), p. 149-158.

Creating a Computer-Supported Writing Lab: Sharing Stories and Creating Vision, Computers and Composition, 1987, 4(2), p. 44-65.

Confessions of a Collaborator: Classroom Research and Writing-Across-the Curriculum Programs, The English Record, 34(2), 1986, p. 3-7.

Reading as a Writing Strategy: Two Case Studies. In Convergences: Transactions in Reading and Writing, B. T. Petersen (Ed.). Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1986, p. 46-63.

An Apprehensive Writer Composes. In When a Writer Can't Write, M. Rose (Ed.). New York, NY: Guilford Press, 1985, p. 83-95.

The Electronic Pen: Computers and the Composing Process. In Writing On-Line, J. Collins and E. Sommers (Eds.). Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1985, p. 55-66.

Wordsworth II: Process-Based CAI for College Composition Teachers. In A Writer's Tool: The Computer in Composition Instruction, W. Wresch (Ed.). Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1984, p. 174-190.

Software for Hardnoses--CAI for College Composition Teachers. Educational Technology, 24(9), 1984, p. 25-28.

The Predrafting Processes of Four High- and Four Low-Apprehensive Writers. Research in the Teaching of English, 18(1), 1984, p. 45-65.

Encoding and Decoding: A Balanced Approach to Communication Skills. Engineering Education, 1983, 74(3), p. 163-164.

Dancing on the Cutting Edge: A Department of Humanists Looks at Computers. Focus: Teaching English Language Arts, 1983, 9(3), p. 80-88.

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

(co-author)

Becoming Literate in the Information Age: Cultural Ecologies and the Literacies of Technology (with G. Hawisher, B. Moraski, and M. Pearson). College Composition and Communication, 55(4), 2004, p. 642-692.

Compromising Women: Teaching Composition Online and at a Distance. In Agents of Change: Virtuality, Gender, and the Challenge to the Traditional University. G. Kreutzner and H. Schelhowe (Eds.). Hanover, Germany: Leske + Budrich, 2003, p. 57-71.

Teaching Writing at a Distance: What’s Gender Got to Do with It?; (with G. Hawisher). In Teaching Writing with Computers, P. Takayoshi and B. Huot (Eds.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003, p. 128-149.

Disssertation Writing and Advising in a Postmodern Age (with K. Latterell). In The Dissertaion & The Discipline: Reinventing Composition Studies, N, Welch, C. Latterell, C. Moore, and S. Carter-Todd (Eds.). Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2002, p. 45-54.

The Poetics of Computers: Composing Relationships with Technology (with B. Longo, D. Reiss, & A, Young). Computers and Composition, 20(2), 2003, p. 97-118.

Under the Radar of Composition Programs: Glimpsing the Future through Case Studies of Literacies in Electronic Contexts (with D. DeVoss, J. Johansen, and J. Williams, Jr.). In Composition Studies in the New Millennium: Rereading the Past, Rewriting the Future, L. Bloom, D. Daiker, E. White (Eds.). 2003, p. 157-173.

Stasis and Change: The Role of Independent Composition Programs and the Dynamic Nature of Literacy (with G. Hawisher and P. Ericsson). In A Field of Dreams: Independent Writing Programs and the Future of Composition Studies, P. O'Neill, A, Crow, L. Burton (Eds.). Logan Utah: Utah State University, 2002, p. 268-277.

Writing Program Administration and Instructional Computing (with K. McAllister). In The Writing Program Administrator's Resource: A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice, S. Brown and T. Enos (Eds.).Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002, p. 341-375.

The Intellectual Work of Computers and Composition Studies (with R. Selfe). In Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work, G. Olson (Ed.). Carbondale: SIU Press, 2002, p. 203-220.

A Historical Look at Electronic Literacy (with G. Hawisher). Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 16(3), 2002, p. 231-276.
Critical Technological Literacy and English Studies: Teaching,

Learning, and Action” (with Richard Selfe). In The Relevance of English: Teaching That Matters in Students’ Lives, R. Yagelski and S. Leonard (Eds.). Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2002, p. 344-381.

This Page is Under Construction: Reading Women Shaping Online Identities (with D. DeVoss), Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, 2(1), 2002, p. 31-48.

Dispatches from the Middlewor(l)ds of Computers and Composition: Experimenting with Writing and Visualizing the Future (with G. Hawisher).  In New Worlds, New Words:  Exploring Pathways for Writing about and in Electronic Environments, J. F. Barber and D. Grigar (Eds.). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2001, p. 185-211.

Distance Education: Political and Professional Agency for Adjunct and Part-Time Faculty, and GTAs (with D. DeVoss, D. Hayden, R. Selfe). In Moving a Mountain:  Transforming the Role of Contingent Faculty in Composition Studies and Higher Education, E. E. Schell and P. L. Stock (Eds.).  Urbana: NCTE, 2001, p. 261-286.

Teaching English across the Technology/Wealth Gap, (with C. Moran). English Journal, 88(6), p. 48-55.

Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution: Images of Technology and the Nature of Change. In Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies, G. Hawisher and C. Selfe (Eds.). Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1999, p. 292-322.

Collaborative Computer Encounters: Teaching Ourselves, Teaching Our Students (with G. Hawisher). In Teaching College English and English Education: Reflective Stories, H. T. McCracken, R. Larson, J. Entes (Eds.). Urbana: NCTE, 1998, p. 333-346.

Forces of Conservativism and Change in Computer-Supported Communication Facilities: Programmatic and Institutional Responses to Change (with R. Selfe). In Computers and Technical Communication: Pedagogical and Programmatic Perspectives, S. Selber (Ed.). Greenwich, CT, 1997. p.241-260.

Reflections on Computers and Composition Literacies at the Century's End (with G. Hawisher). In Page to Screen: Taking Literacy Into the Electronic Era, I. Snyder (Ed.). St. Leonards NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1997, p. 3-19. Reprinted in Teaching Literacy Using Information Technology, Joelie Hancock (Ed.), Carlton South, Victoria: Australia Literacy Educators' Association, 1999, p. 31-47.

Wedding the Technologies of Writing Portfolios and Computers: The Challenges of Electronic Classrooms (with G. Hawisher). In Situating Portfolios: Four Perspectives, K. Yancey and I. Wiser (Eds.). Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1997, p. 305-321.

The Edited Collection: A Scholarly Collection and More (with G. Hawisher). In Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition , G. Olson and T. Taylor (Eds.). Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1997, p. 103-118.

Reflections on Research in Computers and Composition Studies at the Century's End (with G. Hawisher). Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 1996, 19(4), p. 291-304.

Writing as Democratic Social Action in a Technological World: Politicizing and Inhabiting Virtual Landscapes (with R. Selfe). In Multidisciplinary Research in Nonacademic Writing, A. Duin and C. Hansen (Eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., 1996, p. 325-358.

Contexts for Faculty Professional Development in the Age of Electronic Writing and Communication (with S. Selber and J. Johnson-Eilola). Technical Communication, 1995 (Fourth Quarter), p. 1-4.

The Electronic Department (with H. Shwartz and J. Sosnoski). Works & Days 23/24, 1994, 12(1-2), p. 261-86.

A View from the Bridge: English Teachers Piloting among the Shoals of Computer Use (with B. J. Wahlstrom). ADE Bulletin, 1994, 109, p. 33-45.

The Politics of the Interface: Power and Its Exercise in Electronic Contact Zones (with R. Selfe). College Composition and Communication, 1994, 4(45), p. 480-504.

Tradition and Change in Computer-Supported Writing Environments (with G. Hawisher). In Theoretical and Critical Perspectives on Teacher Change, P. Kahaney, J. Janangelo, L. Perry (Eds.). Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1993, p. 155-186.

Designing Computer-Supported Writing Facilities: Theory, Pedagogy, and Operational Experience (with R. Selfe and J. D. Johnson-Eilola). In Approaches to Computer Classrooms: Learning from Practical Experience, L. Myers (Ed.). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993, p. 83-102.

Voices in College Classrooms: The Dynamics of Electronic Discussion (with G. Hawisher). THE Quarterly, 1992,14(Summer), p. 24-28, 32.

Computer-Based Forums for Academic Discourse: Testing the Claims for On-Line Conferences (with P. Meyer). Written Communication, 1991, 8(2), p. 163-192.

The Rhetoric of Technology and the Electronic Writing Class (with G. Hawisher). College Composition and Communication , 1991, 42(1), p. 55-65.

Computer Conferencing and Learning: Authority, Resistance, and Internally Persuasive Discourse (with M. Cooper). College English, 1990, 52(8), p. 847-869.

The Tie That Binds: Building Discourse Communities and Group Cohesion Through Computer-Based Conferences (with J. D. Johnson-Eilola). Collegiate Microcomputer, 1988, 6(4), p. 339-348.

An Emerging Rhetoric of Collaboration: Computers, Collaboration, and the Composing Process, (with B. J. Wahlstrom). Collegiate Microcomputer, 1986, 4(4), p. 289-299.

Student Exposure to Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Activities (with G. McCulley). In Writing Across the Disciplines, A. Young and T. Fulwiler (Eds.). Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton-Cook, 1986, p. 86-96.

Watching Our Garden Grow: Longitudinal Changes in Writing Apprehension (with M. Gorman and M. Gorman). In Writing Across the Disciplines, A. Young and T. Fulwiler (Eds.). Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton-Cook, 1986, p. 97-108.

Journal Writing in Mathematics (with B. Petersen and C. Nahrgang). In Writing Across the Disciplines, A. Young and T. Fulwiler (Eds.). Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton-Cook, 1986, p. 192-207.

Engineers Write to Learn: Building Bridges with Journals (with F. Arbabi). Engineering Education, 1983, 74(2), p. 86-90. Reprinted in Writing Across the Disciplines, A. Young and T. Fulwiler (Eds.). Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton- Cook, 1986, p. 184-191.

Fighting In the Computer Revolution: A Field Report from the Walking Wounded (with B. Wahlstrom). Computers and Composition, 1985, 2(4), p. 63-68.

Computer-Assisted Instruction and the Writing Process: Questions for Research and Evaluation (with B. T. Petersen and B. J. Wahlstrom). College Composition and Communication, 35(1), 1984, p. 98-101.

The Benevolent Beast: Computer-Assisted Instruction for the Teacher of Writing (with B. J. Wahlstrom). The Writing Instructor, 1983, 2(4), p. 193-192.

An Invention Heuristic for Expressive Writing (with S. Rodi), College Composition and Communication, 1980, 31(2), p. 169-174.

 

WEB SITES

(editor, co-author, designer)

Poetry and Song (editor, co-author) (with R. Freisinger, G. Bays, W. Payne), 2002 <http://www.hu.mtu.edu/poemandsong/>

Tenure and Promotion Cases for Faculty Who Work with Technology (Editor, Designer, co-author) (with co-authors L. Hanson, G. Hawisher, V. Villanueva, K. Yancey) 2001 <http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~cyselfe/P&TStuff/P&TWeb/Introduction.htm>

 

INTRODUCTIONS, FOREWORDS, PREFACES

Foreword, Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum, D. Reiss, D. Selfe, A. Young (Eds.). Urbana: NCTE, 1998, p. ix-xiv.

Foreword, (with G. Hawisher) The Dialogic Classroom: Teachers Integrating Computer Technology, Pedagogy, and Research, J. Galin and L. Latchaw (Eds.). Urbana: NCTE, p. vii-x.

 

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

Ideology and Computers. In Encyclopedia of English Studies and Language Arts, A. Purves (Ed.). New York: Scholastic, 1994, Volume I, p. 603-606.

 

VIDEOTAPES

Technical Communication (with B. J. Wahlstrom.). A video series on technical communication in business, industry, and government. 11 lessons: 30-40 minutes. Format: 3/4 inch, color. 1985.


 

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