Computers in composition builds a scholarly foundation situated in the field of digital rhetoric and the relationships between literary writing tools in a relevant and timely course in our modern educational ecological landscape, as AI has been thrust into our laps, leaving a conglomerate of educators scattered in its wake. Computers in composition explores the process of historicization through the lens of historical artifacts throughout history, socially situating them alongside modern technologies we recognize cyclical patterns to "new" writing technologies, and literacy with digital systems, interfaces, algorithms, and computer code. Methodologically viewing how culture, power, and identity work together like a cog in a machine. Revisiting important moments in history from a computational perspective on how rhetoric and composition have always adapted to the culture, shifting, and changing with these inventions, and how we shape the work we do as scholars and educators today, from the individual to the collective by developing a communal and civil practice that leads to future learning outcomes.

The Typewriter: Invention and adaptations; then and now. Reflecting on the importance the tools of writing have on literacy across history and their lasting impact on globalization

BGSU's Digital Artifact Exhibit: Preserving Tools, Methods, and Teachers' Technologies of the Long Nineteenth Century.

Today's newest, most polarized technology and literary tool for writing: Gen AI. Discussions on the future of rhetoric, composition, and the role ethics and pedagogy will transform education.
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Below is a link to digital rhetoric and composition writing assignments.
First-Year composition syllabus policy covering Generative AI
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