On the Blunt Edge: Technology in Composition's History and Pedagogy tells the stories of composition's techno-history, from the roads of the ancient world, which allowed students to travel to school, to the audio-visual aids that populate the classrooms of the modern world. Computers are only a small part of this discussion, a technological Johnny-come-lately in a long-running pedagogical palaver.
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction: Process and Place, Technology in a Glass
- 1 Writing Without Paper: A Study of Functional Rhetoric in Ancient Athens
- 2 Adsum Magister: The Technology of Transportation in Rhetorical Education
- 3 Motivations for the Development of Writing Technology
- 4 “The Next Takes the Machine”: Typewriter Technology and the Transformation of Teaching
- 5 Handwriting, Literacy, and Technology
- 6 “Making the Devil Useful”: Audio-Visual Aids and the Teaching of Writing
- 7 Textbooks and Their Pedagogical Influences in Higher Education: A Bibliographic Essay
- 8 Disciplining Technology: A Selective Annotated Bibliography
- 9 The Rhetoric of Obfuscation and Technologies of Hidden Writing: Poets and Palimpsests, Painters and Purposes
- Index
- Contributors
- Back cover
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