[#] Faigley makes the point in Fragments of Rationality:
Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition, Selfe in Creating
a Computer-Supported Writing Facility: A Blueprint for Action, Stephen
Bernhardt quotes Fred Kemp on the point of "screen magnetism" in "Designing
a Microcomputer Classroom for Teaching Composition" from Computers and
Composition Vol.7, No.1 p.99, but here I'll only quote from Hawisher
and Pemberton's article "Integrating Theory and Ergonomics: Designing the
Electronic Writing Classroom" in Approaches to Computer Writing Classrooms:
Learning from Practical Experience-- "Computers, as we all know, demand
attention when they are turned on, and sometimes it takes an act of will
(or coercion on the part of the instructor) to get students to turn from
them. For this reason, they can foster individual, solitary activities
and inhibit group interactions" (38).
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