Subject: Kairos 1.1

Although the topic of computers and writing isn't the focus of h-rhetor, the attached will be of interest to some of you. Linda Vavra
h-rhetor mo-moderator

********************************ANNOUNCING********************************

The inaugural issue of:

Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments Volume 1, Number 1 (Spring 1996)
Published by the D'Artagnan Communications Group Sponsored by the Alliance for Computers and Writing

http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.1/index.html for Netscape 2.0 browsers

http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.1/tocnf.html for Netscape 1.x and all other web browsers

Cover Web:
Online Writing Labs: Should We? Will We? Are We? Stuart Blythe, J Paul Johnson, Camille Langston, Jane Lasarenko and Suzan Moody present varied takes on the challenges and benefits of OWLs

Featured Webs:

The Case of Object #143 or A Manifesto of CineTextual Writing Anthony Rue, University of Florida

Stories & Maps: Postmodernism and Professional Communication Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Purdue University

Get to Know John Burroughs
Walt Carroll, Olympic Media Information

Mapping Ecash: Using the Internet for Business Writing Tim Krause, Purdue University

What Matters Who Writes? What Matters Who Responds? Issues of Ownership in the Writing Classroom Andrea Lunsford, The Ohio State University with Rebecca Rickly, University of Michigan Michael J. Salvo, SUNY-Binghamton
Susan West, The Ohio State University

Hypertext and Pedagogy in the News:

Should We MOO What We Can?
Kairos Talks With the Proprietors of the Netoric Cafe

News From the MOO . . . CWTA and You?

*Utah State to Host 1996 Computers and Writing Conference *Writing for the World Aims to Connect Writing Classes *Epiphany Project Will Interconnect Universities Nationwide *Calls for Proposals in Computers and Writing and Related Fields

Reviews of:

David Kolb's _Socrates in the Labyrinth_ by Nick Carbone

Nicholas Negroponte's _Being Digital_
by Tyanna Herrington

George Landow's _Writing at the Edge_
by Douglas Eyman

This issue also includes contributions from ACW's Fred Kemp; from Michael Joyce and students at Vassar College; and "Pixelated Rhetorics," a virtual Burkean Parlor/whiteboard for commentary from members of the Kairos editorial board and others.

Issue 1.1 of Kairos is available at:
(best viewed)
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.1/index.html for Netscape 2.0 browsers or
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.1/tocnf.html for Netscape 1.x browsers and all other web browsers

Please direct commentary and questions to: Mick Doherty, Editor <mick@rpi.edu>

The Call For Hypertexts for Kairos 1.2 is available at: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.1/news/cfh.html And will be posted to relevant electronic lists shortly.

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