Methodist College announces a new periodical: The CAC Journal (The Computer-Assisted Composition Journal). Manuscripts on computer-assisted composition are invited (maximum length is twenty pages). Please use MLA style, and send a SASE.
If you are interested in serving on the Editorial Board, please contact Lynn Veach Sadler or Wendy Tibbetts Greene, Co-Editors, (919) 488-7110.
Subscriptions for this journal are $10.00 per year. Send your name, address, and a check payable to
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The Conference on College Composition and Communication of the NCTE is sponsoring a Winter Workshop entitled "Teaching Composition to Undergraduates." The workshop, which will be held in Clearwater, Florida, will run January 5-7, 1987.
The fourth annual CCCC Winter Workshop is designed to provide additional professional development opportunities to teachers in two and four-year colleges through a three-strand program of intensive workshops focusing on the following topics:
For further information write to the following address:
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Computers and the Humanities has published a special issue devoted to computer-assisted instruction. This issue includes the following articles:
"The Challenge for Computer-Assisted Rhetoric" by Hugh Burns."Computers Come of Age in Writing Instruction" by Charles R. Smith, Kathleen E. Kiefer and Patricia S. Gingrich.
plus these reviews on the following books:
Jeanne Halpern and Sarah Liggett, Computers and Composing: How the New Technologies Are Changing Writing (Marion Larson).
Daniel Chandler, ed., Exploring English with Microcomputers (Laura Brady and Marion Larson)
Sally N. Standiford, Kathleen Jaycox and Anne Auten, Computers in the English Classroom (Laura Brady and Marion Larson).
Other topics covered in the 110-page issue are philosophy, musicianship training, language authoring, interactive video, foreign languages, history, and simulations.
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This collection, edited by Glyn Holmes of the University of Western Ontario, is the first anthology of expert articles on CAI in the humanities.
It is available at a special price of $19.50 plus $2 for postage and handling from
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Writing on Computers in English Comp is now available for purchase. According to its publisher, The Writing Consultant, this book is the first basic-writing text using CAI. Designed for high-school and college classrooms, it is announced as a complete one-semester course in English composition.
The author, Dr. Goran Moberg, is a consultant on writing technology and a professor at City University of New York. where he teaches composition using computers. He has previously published Writing in Groups, a text that focuses on "collaborative learning." This method is also featured in the next Writing on Computers. Writing on Computers is available from