When modern discussions of technology arise in rhetoric and
composition studies, the topic is almost always related to
computers-despite their comparatively recent development and
deployment in this millennia-old profession. Computers themselves
are new; composition's rush to emergent technologies is not. New
teachers face expectations that they will master everything from
word processing to the multi-modal essay, from Aristotle's Rhetoric
to the classroom whiteboard. While little can be done immediately
to change such unrealistic and unreasonable expectations, teachers
and scholars can benefit greatly from considering the place such
expectations and technologies have in the larger and longer flow of
rhetoric and composition studies-from the technology of road
building in the ancient world, which allowed students to travel to
school from afar, to the technology of handwriting, now largely
falling by the wayside. From this past emerge fresh perspectives on
the future of writing technologies in the digital age. The story of
technology in composition's history and pedagogy is one of
stability and change, of short-term success and long-term failure.
The essays in ON THE BLUNT EDGE: TECHNOLOGY IN COMPOSITION'S
HISTORY AND PEDAGOGY tell the story of rhetoric and composition's
long and intriguing relationship with writing technologies,
revealing the ways that they have transformed the teaching and
understanding of writing throughout history. Contributors include
SHANE BORROWMAN, RICHARD LEO ENOS, DANIEL R. FREDRICK, RICHARD W.
RAWNSLEY, SHAWN FULLMER, KATHLEEN BLAKE YANCEY, JOSEPH JONES,
SHERRY RANKINS ROBERTSON, DUANE ROEN, MARCIA KMETZ, ROBERT LIVELY,
CRYSTAL BROCH-COLOMBINI, THOMAS BLACK, JASON THOMPSON, and THERESA
ENOS. SHANE BORROWMAN is an Assistant Professor of English at the
University of Montana Western, where he teaches composition and
creative nonfiction. He is editor or co-editor of numerous
collections, including Trauma and the Teaching of Writing (SUNY,
2005), The Promise and Perils of Writing Program Administration
(Parlor Press, 2008), and Rhetoric in the Rest of the West
(Cambridge Scholars, 2010). Additionally, he is editor/co-editor of
multiple first-year composition textbooks and readers. His
nonfiction has appeared in publications ranging from Brevity and
Conclave: A Journal of Character to Whitefish Review and Rhetoric
Review.
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