Electronic Literacies in the Workplace

Contending that technologr, especially when it networks writers to other writers, is more than a mere scribal tool, this book presents 14 essays designed to ignite interest in technology as one of the material condit .ins of workplace writing contexts. After an introduction ( "Issues' Written Literacy and Electronic Literacy in Workplace Settini--" by Jennie Dautermann and Patricia Sullivan), essays in the book ite (1) "Writing with Electronic Tools in Midwestern Businesse:' (Jennie Dautermann); (2) "Specialized Language as a Barrier to Aumated Information Technologies" (Susan B. Jones); (3) "Eleizronic Mail in Two Corporate Workplaces" (Brenda R. Sims); (4) "Writin3 Technologies at White Sands" (Powell G. Henderson); (5) "Writiy?-g and Database Technology: Extending the Definition of Writing in tie Workplace" (Barbara Mirel); (6) "After Automation: Hypertext and Corporate Structures" (Johndan Johnson-Eilola and Stuart A. Sciber); (7) "Automating the Writing Process: Two Case Studies" (Dou,las R. Wieringa and others); (8) "Online Editing, Mark-Up Models, and the Workplace Lives of Editors and Writers" (David K. Farkas nnd Steven E. Poltrock); (9) "Who 'Owns' Electronic Texts?" (Tharon W. Howard); (10) "Networking Technology in the Classroom: Whose Interests Are We Serving?" (Craig J. Hansen); (11) "Gaining Electronic ,iteracy: Workplace Simulations in the Classroom" (Nancy Allen); (12) "Tales from the Crossing: Professional Communication Internships in the Electronic Workplace" (Robert R. Johnson); (13) "Theorizing E-mail for the Practice, Instruction, and Study of Literacy" (Cynthia L. Selfe); and (14) "Working across Methodological Interfaces: The Study of Computers and Writing in the Workplace" (James E. Porter and Patricia Sullivan).