ED 398 586 AUTHOR TITLE INSTITUTION REPORT NO PUB DATE NOTE AVAILABLE FROM PUB TYPE EDRS PRICE DESCRIPTORS DOCUMENT RESUME CS 215 431 Sullivan, Patricia, Ed.; Dautermann, Jennie, Ed. Electronic Literacies in the Workplace: Technologies of Writing. Advances is Computers and Composition Studies Series. National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, Ill. ISBN-0-8141-1307-9 96 377p. National Council of Tea hers of English, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL-61801-1096 (Stock No. 13079-3050: $19.95 members, $26.95 nonmembers). Reports Descriptive (:41) Reports Research/Technical (1431-- Collected Works General (020) MFO1 /PC16 Plus Postage. Case Studies; *Computer 13tworks; Editing; *Electronic Mail; Electr,-_tic Text; Higher Education; Hypermedia; Internship POgrams; *Organizational Climate; Organizational (..mmunication; *Workplace Literacy; *Writing Proce.s.;,es; Writing Research IDENTIFIERS *Writing Contexts ABSTRACT Contending that technologr, especially when it networks writers to other writers, is more than a mere scribal tool, this book presents 14 essays designed to ignite interest in technology as one of the material condit .ins of workplace writing contexts. After an introduction ( "Issues' Written Literacy and Electronic Literacy in Workplace Settini--" by Jennie Dautermann and Patricia Sullivan), essays in the book ite (1) "Writing with Electronic Tools in Midwestern Businesse:' (Jennie Dautermann); (2) "Specialized Language as a Barrier to Aumated Information Technologies" (Susan B. Jones); (3) "Eleizronic Mail in Two Corporate Workplaces" (Brenda R. Sims); (4) "Writin3 Technologies at White Sands" (Powell G. Henderson); (5) "Writiy?-g and Database Technology: Extending the Definition of Writing in tie Workplace" (Barbara Mirel); (6) "After Automation: Hypertext and Corporate Structures" (Johndan Johnson-Eilola and Stuart A. Sciber); (7) "Automating the Writing Process: Two Case Studies" (Dou,las R. Wieringa and others); (8) "Online Editing, Mark-Up Models, and the Workplace Lives of Editors and Writers" (David K. Farkas nnd Steven E. Poltrock); (9) "Who 'Owns' Electronic Texts?" (Tharon W. Howard); (10) "Networking Technology in the Classroom: Whose Interests Are We Serving?" (Craig J. Hansen); (11) "Gaining Electronic ,iteracy: Workplace Simulations in the Classroom" (Nancy Allen); (12) "Tales from the Crossing: Professional Communication Internships in the Electronic Workplace" (Robert R. Johnson); (13) "Theorizing E-mail for the Practice, Instruction, and Study of Literacy" (Cynthia L. Selfe); and (14) "Working across Methodological Interfaces: The Study of Computers and Writing in the Workplace" (James E. Porter and Patricia Sullivan). (RS)