Susan asks a lot of good questions, among them:

>Is the responsibility of a Department or program to introduce Comp/Rhet
students to these new ways of thinking even if the students aren't
necessarily interested in Computers and Writing? Or is it reasonable to
insist that everyone should be familiar with it? I suppose it depends
on the mission of the school and the program, but at the same time I
realy do feel there is a responsibility to expose students to the
field-- What kind of sense does everyone have about how well schools
currently do this?
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In our case, at Northern Illinois University, is does depend on
our goals for the program, which explicitly state that students
who go through our FYcomp program will be given experience in the
computer lab writing on computers and on the Internet. So in
our case we believe we have a mandate at least to introduce
our students to electronic composition pedagogy, especially in
the course for new TAs I teach. In that course, we spend one
day a week in the computer lab talking about theory and approaches
(and exchanging lab lesson plans) for effective use of networked
computers in our composition classes.

However, there are teachers with a different point of view, who
believe that composition pedagogy, electronic or not, ought to
be up to the individual instructor. That is, with the downturn
in the dot com sector jobs, c