Applies to all writing courses I teach. Many argue that the scene of literacy has shifted from pen and paper to the cathode ray tube, the monitor, the computer screen. If you simply desire to write or if you must write in any serious or professional way, you will eventually choose to write with a computer. Admittedly, not everyone agrees. Some resist this apparatus.
People have the right to do so.
Still, the evidence is pointing to a global shift to the computer as the mechanism we will have to learn to use in order to play a role in the information economy. Many of you will work hard to be in professional positions with enough responsibility to involve writing. You may prefer acoustic music, natural cotton, and essays composed with nibs and parchment. If the aura created by exclusive use of such ancient technologies is necessary for you to be able to write, I think you may have found your way into the wrong section of English Composition. In my classes we use computers as much as we can in order to learn how to create effectively in a digital world.