On the Blunt Edge: Technology in Composition's History and Pedagogy

Edited by Shane Borrowman Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-220-9 (paperback, $30); 978-1-60235-221-6 (hardcover, $60); 978-1-60235-222-3 (PDF, $19.99). © 2012 by Parlor Press. 200 pages, with illustrations, notes, bibliographies, and index. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. Description When modern discussions of technology arise in rhetoric and composition studies, the topic is almost always related to computers—despite their comparatively recent development and deployment in this millennia-old profession. Computers themselves are new; composition’s rush to emergent technologies is not. New teachers face expectations that they will master everything from word processing to the multi-modal essay, from Aristotle’s Rhetoric to the classroom whiteboard. While little can be done immediately to change such unrealistic and unreasonable expectations, teachers and scholars can benefit greatly from considering the place such