TR 57. Technological Indeterminacy: The Role of
Classroom Writing Practices in Shaping Computer Use,
by Cynthia Greenleaf. This study examines the integration
of computers into a remedial high school English class.
Greenleaf focuses on writing practices before and after
computers were introduced, and concludes that the
teacher's structuring of writing instruction had the
greatest impact on student writing and the ways computers
entered into writing. She argues that computers do not
function as independent variables in classrooms, but
rather as part of a complex network of social and
pedagogical interactions. Winner of NCTE's Promising
Researcher Award. January, 1992; 40 pages; $4.00.
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