The following list provides full bibliographic citations for reading assignments appearing on the course syllabus. Links from the end of each citation will lead to a response paper written by a student in the class. Click here to return to the syllabus.

1. Birkerts, Sven. "Hypertext: of Mouse and Men." The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1994. 151-64.

2. Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991.

3. Daniell, Beth. "Against the Great Leap Theory of Literacy." Pre/Text 7.3-4 (1986): 181-193.

4. Dobrin, David. "Hype and Hypertext." Literacy and Computers: The Complications of Teaching and Learning with Technology. Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe and Susan Hilligoss. New York: MLA, 1994. 305-15.

5. Edmunds, Sheila. "From Shoeffer to Vérard: Concerning The Scribes Who Became Printers." Printing the Written Word: The Social History of Books, circa 1450-1520. Sandra Hindman, ed. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1991. 21-40.

6. Eisenstein, Elizabeth. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Canto edition. 1983. New York: Cambridge UP, 1993.

7. Laurel, Brenda. "The Nature of the Beast." Computers as Theatre. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1993. 1-33.

8. Lehrer, Richard. "Authors of Knowledge: Patterns of Hypermedia Design." Computers as Cognitive Tools. Susanne P. Lajoie and Sharon J. Derry, eds. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993. 197-227.

9. McGann, Jerome J. "Composition as Explanation (of Modern and Postmodern Poetries)." Cultural Artifacts and the Production of Meaning: The Page, the Image, and the Body. Margaret J. M. Ezell and Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe. Ann Arbor: The U of Michigan P, 1994. 101-38.

10. Nellhaus, Tobin. "Mementos of Things to Come: Orality, Literacy, and Typology in the Biblia pauperum." Printing the Written Word: The Social History of Books, circa 1450-1520. Sandra Hindman, ed. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1991. 292-321.

11. Norman, Donald A. "User-Centered Design." The Psychology of Everyday Things. New York: Basic Books, 1988. 187-213.

12. Norman, Donald A. "Writing as Design, Design as Writing." Turn Signals are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1993. 175-85.

13. Ong, Walter. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. New York: Methuen, 1982.

14. Smith, Catherine F. "Reconceiving Hypertext." Evolving Perspectives on Computers and Composition Studies: Questions for the 1990s. Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe, eds. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1991. 224-52.

15. Tannen, Deborah. "The Oral/Literate Continuum in Discourse." Spoken and Written Language: Exploring Orality and Literacy. Ed. Deborah Tannen. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1982. 1-16.

16. "Writing." Encyclopedia Britannica. 1994 ed. 1025-50.