Co-director with Trent Batson of the Alliance for Computers
and Writing, Fred Kemp has undertaken the "writing," if one can
call it that in this late age of print, of a "living hypertext,"
one that will grow, infinitely and collaboratively, as does what
Kemp calls the "shared base of knowledge" from which writing
teachers operate. Kemp promises that "as long as the Alliance for
Computers and Writing remains active, this essay will continue to
grow. I invite those who would like to add to this document to do
so by either providing me links to other URLs or by simply
sending me email text to link myself . . . . I will accept all
reasonable additions, even from those who disagree with me." As
of this writing (25 April 1995), the essay itself is just under
construction, with only a few nodes and links established. It
undertakes what Kemp believes to be "chief among the many
services the Alliance can provide . . .The Shared Knowledge Base
in computer-based writing instruction." For Kemp, "the edge of
knowledge for us in writing instruction is moving fast and we
need new and better ways of at least staying within sight of it."
This essay "web," then, is envisioned as a living hypertext to
which writing instructors can continue to contribute, one that
will supposedly transcend the limits of current disseminations of
knowledge which, according to Kemp, in their forms as lore or
publication become either unproblematized or codified. The
Alliance for Computers and Writing attempts to provide
professional assistance and networking for compositionists and
other instructors who use, or wish to make use of, computers in
classroom and individualized instruction. (J Paul
Johnson.)
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Michael Hancher
Department of English, University of Minnesota
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Created 29 April 1995
Last revised 17 September 1996