Title page for ETD etd-07132009-124303

Type of Document

Thesis

Author

Szymanski, Natalie Ann

Author's Email Address

nas07g@fsu.edu

URN

etd-07132009-124303

Title

Understanding the Journals That Write Us: Exploring the Relationship Between the Field of Composition and the Subdiscipline of Computers and Composition

Degree

Master of Arts

Department

English, Department of

Advisory Committee

Advisor Name	Title
Kathleen Yancey	Committee Chair
Kristie Fleckenstein	Committee Member
Michael Neal	Committee Member

Keywords

Rhetoric and Composition
College Composition and Communication
Computers and Composition
Computer-aided Teaching
Discourse Analysis
Pedagogy
Research
Theory
Composition Subdisciplines

Date of Defense

2009-06-17

Availability

unrestricted

Abstract

This project works to explore the relationship between the larger field of composition and the smaller subdiscipline of computers and composition by examining articles published in College Composition and Communication (CCC) and Computers and Composition (C&C) over the last 25 years. Based on a taxonomy of article types and topics for the technology-related articles published in both journals from 1983 to 2008, this study identifies seven major findings concerning the relationship between computers and composition and the larger field focused on. The first five findings highlight differences between the journals, the next one discuss a similarity between them, and the final one explores a new development in C&C exclusively. These findings include the: (1) journals’ overall (publication) relationship; (2) ways both participate in a “sticky Theory-Practice dance” (Grimm 266); (3) shifting leadership patterns (on field-related topics) between the journals ; (4) ways each connect computers and composition work to other subdiscipline; (5) the patterns of topics in each journal, especially where there are absences; (6) their shared display of programmatic stasis and (slow) increase in treatment of professional topics; and (7) the slow and nuanced development of C&C’s treatment of article types and topics. This study then concludes by putting these findings in dialogue with current assertions about the relationship between CCC and C&C to explore how they both align and challenge previous assumptions.

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