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

Teachers, students, and practitioners of writing explore the role technology has played in composition and rhetoric and instruction in it. Among their topics are writing without papers: functional rhetoric in ancient Athens, motivations for the development of writing technology, typewriter technology and the transformation of teaching, audio-visual aids and the teaching of writing, textbooks and their pedagogical influence in higher education, and the rhetoric of obfuscation and technologies of hidden writing. Annotation 2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)