"One of the things that this gets to for me, in my current job at Bedford/St.
Martin's, where I do a lot of campus visits and workshops, is the age old
question we all, as technologically savvy people in our programs and
departments, hear locally, often with a slight whine in the asking, "I want
to teach writing, not computers."

But the two aren't separate. Writing is what you write with; what you write
with shapes how you think, how you see writing, how you read. And in most
academic disciplines, writing--articles, proposals, letters of
introduction/recommendation, conference papers, books, textbooks, web sites,
e-mail lists--is the thing that makes the discipline what it is, defines it.

What's been great about the past 20 years or so, as computers have moved
into day to day life, has been the chance to study the change they have
brought to understanding disciplines and what defines them." --Nick Carbone, on Techrhet