Electronic writing centers

"Against the idea of the writing center as a fix-it shop and the computer as a teaching machine, Coogan theorizes the electronic writing center as a dialogic space where students and tutors learn to value those off-stage voices and contradictory impulses that inform their writing. By connecting e-mail tutoring with similar practices in the classroom, Coogan challenges us not only to imagine new roles for computers in the writing center but to implement a new practice of dialogic literacy in the discipline of Composition."--Jacket.