Honorable Mention for the 2019 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award Since its public launch in 2008, the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN) has collected approximately 7500 unique contributions of people’s literacy experiences from across the globe and from a variety of backgrounds. The Archive as Classroom: Pedagogical Approaches to the Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives showcases the variety of innovative ways educators have used this resource in classroom practice.

Distant reading and related data-driven methodologies illuminate previously unrecognized trends in how the discipline of English has incorporated, resisted, and naturalized new media technologies.

Abstract This article argues that the belletristic and elocutionary movements of the late‐eighteenth/nineteenth centuries functioned as cultural mechanisms of remediation, naturalizing the fast‐growing print medium so that it eventually became the de facto arbiter of discursive standards for all forms of discourse. Belletrism and elocution, usually depicted in antagonistic conflict with one another, both sought to bring the formal, aesthetic, and logical attributes of print culture and insert them into handwriting and oratorical practice as “natural” elements. The codification of the paragraph in nineteenth‐century composition texts illustrates this phenomenon.