Description:
This book describes the emerging practice of e-mail tutoring; one-to-one correspondence between college students and writing tutors conducted over electronic mail. It reviews the history of Composition Studies, paying special attention to those ways in which writing centers and computers and composition have been previously hailed within a narrative of functional literacy and quick-fix solutions. The author suggests a new methodology for tutoring, and a new mandate for the writing center: a strong connection between the rhythms of extended, asynchronous writing and dialogic literacy. The electronic writing center can become a site for informed resistance to functional literacy.
Review Quotes: ..."engaging and thought-provoking...a text as provocative as Coogan's is often at its best when we find ourselves disagreeing with it and thus are forced to re-examine our own beliefs."-The Writing Lab Newsletter