Joanna Castner completed her M. A. in Rhetoric and Composition this past spring, writing a Master's thesis on Bakhtin, Bruffee, and social constructionist theory in computer-based writing classrooms. Joanna, who was the temporary director of our Writing Center this summer, has taught in the Macintosh computer-based classroom for three semesters and this semester is teaching in the IBM classroom. John Chandler, a Ph.D. student in our Technical Communication and Rhetoric Program, is new to the Project but has become enthusiastically attracted by the concept of hypertext used in fiction instruction. She is also a frequent visitor to DaedalusMOO and the Netoric. We feel that what Joseph doesn't know about the Internet and Internet resources is probably apocryphal.
Nothing is more frightening to a graduate teaching assistant than the likelihood of wasting time.
Yet one cannot grow without risk. We hear that computers are essentially a male activity, but six of these eight researchers are female. Nor are the eight without family commitments. Six of the eight are married, and three of those have children. The ages of the eight include every decade from 20 through 50.