Epistemological
implications

39. Textual/Digital Oscillation changes our attention structures.

Taking our approaches to writing as an example:

• We thought we were:
  • Doing unconscious expression
  • looking through text
  • working toward Correctness.
  • know so as to write about it
    
• Instead, need to learn to:

• do self-conscious design
• look at text
• work toward Effectiveness-Decorum
• Learn so as to use it.
  

Professor Bill Seaman, Ph.D.reviews digital writing

*Courtroom knowledge/behavior changes illustrate the shift.
*Schools pilot standardized test for IT literacy

Questions for study:

1)List 5 different ways in which you experience digital oscillation.
2) Review two of the approaches to digital writing reviewed by Seaman. Describe the sorts of work you found there.

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Lanham: The electronic word