Computers and Composition Dec 2003

Cui bono?: Revisiting the promises and perils of online learning

Kristine L. Blair Bowling Green State University ; Elizabeth A. Monske
Journal
Computers and Composition
Published
2003-12-01
DOI
10.1016/j.compcom.2003.08.016
CompPile
Search in CompPile ↗
Open Access
Closed
Topics
online writing instruction
Export
BibTeX RIS

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (14)

  1. McKee (2026)
    Computers & composition research at the dawn of generative AI: Threats, opportu…
    Computers and Composition
  2. Amicucci et al. (2025)
    From “Text-heavy slides” to “That image did a lot of the work”: Five faculty tr…
    Computers and Composition
  3. Libertz et al. (2025)
    Preparing for a new paradigm: A mixed-methods study of student experience in on…
    Computers and Composition
  4. Love (2024)
    Lessons of experience: Labor habits of a long-time, contingent online technical…
    Technical Communication Quarterly
  5. Blair (2023)
    Computers and Composition at 40: A retrospective
    Computers and Composition
Show all 14 →
  1. Harris et al. (2022)
    What the COVID pandemic taught us about creating inclusive, anti-racist, and ac…
    Computers and Composition
  2. Hutchison (2019)
    Technological Efficiency in The Learning Management System: A Wicked Problem wi…
    Computers and Composition
  3. Szymanski (2015)
    Understanding the Journals that Write Us: A 30th Birthday Reflection
    Computers and Composition
  4. Alexander et al. (2012)
    Teaching with Technology: Remediating the Teaching Philosophy Statement
    Computers and Composition
  5. Walker et al. (2011)
    Computers and Composition 20/20: A Conversation Piece, or What Some Very Smart …
    Computers and Composition
  6. Moxley (2008)
    Datagogies, Writing Spaces, and the Age of Peer Production
    Computers and Composition
  7. Blakelock et al. (2006)
    Distance learning: From multiple snapshots, a composite portrait
    Computers and Composition
  8. Hewett (2006)
    Synchronous online conference-based instruction: A study of whiteboard interact…
    Computers and Composition
  9. Reilly et al. (2006)
    The price of free software: Labor, ethics, and context in distance education
    Computers and Composition

References (70) · 27 in this index

  1. Addison, Joanne, & Hilligoss, Susan. (1999). Technological fronts: Lesbian lives “on the line.” In Kristine B…
  2. Barber et al. (1997)
    Letter from the guest editors
    Computers and Composition
  3. Barker, Thomas, & Kemp, Fred. (1990). Network theory: A postmodern pedagogy for the writing classroom. In Car…
  4. Bartholomae, David. (1985). Inventing the university. In Mike Rose (Ed.), When a writer can’t write: Studies …
  5. Batson, Trent. (1988, February/March). The ENFI project: A networked classroom approach to writing instructio…
Show all 70 →
  1. Blair (1998)
    Literacy, dialogue, and difference in the ‘electronic contact zone’
    Computers and Composition
  2. Blair, Kristine, & Takayoshi, Pamela. (Eds.). (1999). Feminist cyberspaces: Mapping gendered academic spaces.…
  3. Brady (2001)
    Fault lines in the terrain of distance education
    Computers and Composition
  4. Bruffee (1984)
    Collaborative Learning and the "Conversation of Mankind"
    College English
  5. Conference on College Composition and Communication. (2002). CCCC promotion and tenure guidelines for work wi…
  6. Cooper et al. (1990)
    Computer Conferences and Learning: Authority, Resistance, and Internally Persua…
    College English
  7. Day (2000)
    Teachers at the crossroads: evaluating teaching in electronic environments
    Computers and Composition
  8. DeWitt (1997)
    Out there on the web: Pedagogy and identity in face of opposition
    Computers and Composition
  9. Eldred, Janet. (1989). Computers, composition pedagogy, and the social view. In Gail Hawisher & Cynthia Selfe…
  10. ELDRED et al. (1995)
    Researching Electronic Networks
    Written Communication
  11. Ellis, Allan, & Phelps, Renata. (2000). Managing staff development for web-based teaching: A four-stage model…
  12. Faigley, Lester. (1992). Fragments of rationality: Postmodernity and the subject of composition. Pittsburgh, …
  13. Faigley, Lester. (1999). Beyond imagination: The Internet and global digital literacy. In Gail E. Hawisher & …
     ↗
  14. Flores, Mary. (1990). Computer conferencing: Composing a feminist community of writers. In Carolyn Handa (Ed.…
  15. Gerrard (1999)
    Letter from the guest editor
    Computers and Composition
  16. Handa, Carolyn. (1990). Computers and community: Teaching composition in the 21st century. Portsmouth, NH: Bo…
  17. Harkin, Patricia, & Schilb, John. (1990). Contending with words. New York: Modern Language Association.
  18. Hawisher, Gail E., & LeBlanc, Paul. (1992). Re-imagining computers and composition: Teaching and research in …
  19. Hawisher, Gail, LeBlanc, Paul, Moran, Charles, & Selfe, Cynthia. (1996). Computers and the teaching of writin…
  20. Hawisher (1993)
    Electronic mail and the writing instructor
    College English  ↗
  21. Hawisher, Gail E., & Selfe, Cynthia L. (1991a). Evolving perspectives on computers and composition studies. U…
  22. Hawisher (1991)
    The rhetoric of technology and the electronic writing class
    College Composition and Communication  ↗
  23. Hawisher, Gail E., & Sullivan, Patricia. (1998). Women on the networks: Searching for e-spaces of their own. …
  24. Herring, Susan. (1996). Computer-mediated communication: Linguistic, social and cross-cultural perspectives. …
     ↗
  25. Higher Education Program and Policy Council of the American Federation of Teachers. (2000). Distance educatio…
  26. Holcomb (1997)
    A class of clowns: Spontaneous joking in computer-assisted discussions
    Computers and Composition
  27. Janangelo (1991)
    Technopower and technoppression: Some abuses of power and control in computer-a…
    Computers and Composition
  28. Katz, Seth, Walker, Janice, & Cross, Janet. (1997). Kairos [CoverWeb issue: Tenure and technology]. Retrieved…
  29. Knadler (2001)
    E-Racing difference in E-Space: Black female subjectivity and the Web-based portfolio
    Computers and Composition
  30. Ko, Susan, & Rossen, Steve. (2001). Teaching online: A practical guide. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
  31. Kolko, Beth, Nakamura, Lisa, & Rodman, Gilbert. (Eds.). (2000). Race in cyberspace. London: Routledge.
  32. Kramarae, Cheris. (2000). The third shift: Women learning online. Washington, DC: American Association of Uni…
  33. Kremers (1990)
    Sharing authority on synchronous networks: The case for riding the beast
    Computers and Composition
  34. Lang et al. (2000)
    Letter from the guest editors
    Computers and Composition
  35. Langston, M. Diane, & Batson, Trent. (1990). The solid shifts invited by working collaboratively on computer …
  36. LeCourt (1998)
    Critical pedagogy in the computer classroom: Politicizing the writing space
    Computers and Composition
  37. LeBlanc, Paul. (1994). The politics of literacy and technology in secondary school classrooms. In Cynthia Sel…
  38. Lynch, Marguerita McVay. (2002). Online educator: A guide to creating the virtual classroom. New York: Routledge.
     ↗
  39. Maid (2000)
    Yes, a technorhetorician can get tenure
    Computers and Composition
  40. McKee (2002)
    “YOUR VIEWS SHOWED TRUE IGNORANCE!!!”: (Mis)Communication in an online interrac…
    Computers and Composition
  41. Modern Language Association. (2003). Reports from the Committee on Information Technology. Retrieved May 20, …
  42. Palloff, Rena, & Pratt, Keith. (2000). Lessons from the cyberspace classroom: The realities of online teachin…
  43. Peterson (2001)
    The debate about online learning: key issues for writing teachers
    Computers and Composition
  44. Peterson et al. (2001)
    Letter from the guest editors
    Computers and Composition
  45. Porter (1986)
    Intertextuality and the discourse community
    Rhetoric Review
  46. Regan (1993)
    Type normal like the rest of us: Writing, power, and homophobia in the networked composit…
    Computers and Composition
  47. Rheingold, Howard. (1993). The virtual community: Homesteading on the electronic frontier. Reading, MA: Addis…
  48. Rickly (1999)
    The gender gap in computers and composition research: Must boys be boys?
    Computers and Composition
  49. Romano (1993)
    The Egalitarianism Narrative: Whose Story? Which Yardstick?
    Computers and Composition
  50. Savenye et al. (2001)
    So you are going to be an online writing instructor: issues in designing, devel…
    Computers and Composition
  51. Selfe, Cynthia L. (1990). Technology in the English classroom: Computers through the lens of feminist theory.…
  52. SELFE et al. (1991)
    Testing Claims for On-Line Conferences
    Written Communication
  53. Selfe (1994)
    The politics of the interface: Power and its exercise in electronic contact zones
    College Composition and Communication  ↗
  54. Sirc (1990)
    The face of collaboration in the networked writing classroom
    Computers and Composition
  55. Skubikowksi, Kathleen, & Elder, John. (1990). Computers and the social contexts of writing. In Carolyn Handa …
  56. Sommers, Elizabeth. (1992). Political impediments to virtual reality. In Gail Hawisher & Paul LeBlanc (Eds.),…
  57. Sullivan, Patricia. (in press). Distance learning: Assessing the narratives of technology, teacher work, and …
  58. Takayoshi (1994)
    Building new networks from the old: Women's experiences with electronic communi…
    Computers and Composition
  59. Takayoshi (1999)
    No boys allowed: The World Wide Web as a clubhouse for girls
    Computers and Composition
  60. Trimbur (1989)
    Consensus and difference in collaborative learning
    College English  ↗
  61. Turkle, Sherry. (1995). Life on the screen: Identity in the age of the Internet. New York: Simon and Schuster.
  62. Walker, Janice. (1997). Fanning the flames: Tenure and promotion and other role-playing games. Kairos: A Jour…
  63. Webb (1997)
    Narratives of self in networked communications
    Computers and Composition
  64. Wolfe (1999)
    Why do women feel lgnored? gender differences in computer-mediated classroom in…
    Computers and Composition
  65. Zeni, Jane. (1994). Literacy, technology, and teacher education. In Cynthia Selfe & Susan Hilligoss (Eds.), L…
CrossRef global citation count: 26 View in citation network → Build reading path →

Related Articles

  1. Computers and Composition Jun 2026
    From correspondence to cloud: The history of research and online writing instruction ↗
    Jessie Borgman; Amy Cicchino; Heidi Skurat Harris; Casey McArdle; Scott Warnock
    writing pedagogy online writing instruction
  2. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly Apr 2026
    Virtual Background Authenticity and Its Impact on Social Presence in Online Learning ↗
    Stephanie Kelly; Jihyun Kim
    graduate education professional writing online writing instruction
  3. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly Jan 2026
    Business Communication as Cultural Text: The Use of Student-Made Online Advertisements in Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence ↗
    Saheeh Shafi
    writing pedagogy teacher development professional writing online writing instruction literacy studies
  4. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy Jan 2026
    Quantum Ontologies: Beyond Efficiency in Digital Learning Spaces ↗
    Manuel Piña
    qualitative research online writing instruction race and writing
  5. Computers and Composition Dec 2025
    Supporting online learning for diverse elementary students: A community of inquiry approach to collaborative multimodal composing—processes, products, and perspectives ↗
    Amanda Yoshiko Shimizu; Jill Santos
    collaborative writing multimodality online writing instruction