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University of New Hampshire University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository Doctoral Dissertations Student Scholarship Fall 2001 Layering literacies: Computers and peer response in the 21st century Christopher Warren Dean University of New Hampshire, Durham Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation Recommended Citation Dean, Christopher Warren, "Layering literacies: Computers and peer response in the 21st century" (2001). Doctoral Dissertations. 36. https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation/36 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Scholarship at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. 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UMI Number 3022956 Copyright 2001 by Dean, Christopher Warren All rights reserved. UMI’ UMI Microform 3022956 Copyright 2001 by Bell & Howell Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved. This microform edition Is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. Bell & Howell Information and Leaming Company 300 North Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor. Ml 48106-1346 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED C.2001 CHRISTOPHER W. DEAN Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. This dissertation has been examined and approved / Dissertation Director Dr. Thomas N. Newkirk. Professor of English. Ôi/uT l Dr. Cinthia L. Gannett Associate Professor of English • ' ; ■' ■ ' ■ , w Dr. Patricia A. Sullivan. Associate Professor of English Professor Lisa C. Miller. Associate Professor of English Professor Paula M. Salvio. Associate Professor of Education 0 2-S', 2-ÛÛ I Date Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. DEDICATION For my Parents, Jim and Helen Dean: My first and best teachers nr Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It’s hard to know where to begin. I feel that my dissertation is, and I mean this in the best possible way, not really mine. It is the work of many people—a collaboration between friends, family, students, colleagues, mentors and aU die people in my life. Out of this huge stock of people and good will, I do want to take a litde time and thank some specific people. If there is anyone who is left out when all is said and done, I beg y’all to forgive my oversight and accept my thanks. I want to first thank all the members of my dissertation committee. Cinthia Gannett has been, over the course of four years, a wonderfiil mentor, friend, and colleague, and her careful, kind reading of my work has shaped it in a variety of important ways. I owe Cindy more than I can possibly mention in these brief acknowlalgements. Patricia Sullivan has also been an invaluable mentor, friend, and reader of my woric. I owe coming to New Hampshire, in a variety of ways, to Pat, and Pat has helped keep me here. Paula Salvio has also been a great help as the “outside” reader for this text. I thsmk Paula for her coffee, critique and unfailing enthusiasm that helped me push through the dissertation process. Lisa Miller has also been a fine friend, colleague, and reader. Her expertise on issues of computers and writing has helped me refine my prose and thoughts, and her generosity with the resources of the Journalism computer lab have helped me have the resources I have needed to do the work of dissertation. Last, but certainly not least, I want to thank my dissertation director, Tom Newkirk. Tom has been instrumental in helping me finish this dissertation. He has helped shape my methodological approach to my woric, my rendering of this work, and ultimately the final draft you have in your hands. Tom not only shaped my dissertation, he helped shape me as a professional in the field. Tom taught me about research, academic writing, and, perhaps most importantly, he acknowledged and afBimed the woric that I was trying to do in composition—no matter how little it deserved affirmation. I also want to thank four other college teachers who led me into the field of composition. At Portland State I was lucky enough to woric with Sherrie Gradin and Duncan Carter, and these two teachers led me gently into the field that I have grown to love and value. Also, I want to thank Nancy Porter, who taught me more than I have any right to know about the teaching of reading and femmist thought. I also want to thank a mentor who has sadly passed on, Robert J. Connors. Bob was my first composition instractor here at UNH, he was my boss in the Writing Center, and he was, and is, a model for the sort of writing I hope I can some day approach I also want to thank my follow graduate students and instructors at UNH and Portland State University. All of you have provided me with a shoulder to cry on, someone to bounce ideas off ofi and even with research sites to do my woric. Bronwyn Williams, now at the green pastures of Louisville, was my assigned and real mentor here at UNH—he Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. is the soit of friend and colleague that one dreams of. Amy Zenger and Joyce Rain Anderson came to UNH at the same time, and they were a huge reason that I gutted it out through a year filled with culture shock and a longing for the Pacific Northwest. Another reason I stuck around were my friends outside of my field in composition who provided me with more affection, advice, and camaraderie than I really deservW. Bill Stroup, Scott Massey, Sally Hirsh, the cast o f999 and a host of others who hung out in the hallowed halls of Hamilton Smith. Also, there were my follow “comp heads” here at UNH. I want Stephanie Patterson, Kuhio Walters, Dave Edwards, Megan Fulwiller, Kate Tirabassi, and Michelle Cox to know that their kindness and advice meant a great deal to me—personally and professionally. Y’all rock! Another group of folks also rock: the family at the UNH Writing Center. I use the word family advisedly because Maggie Moore, Tonda Liggett, Rod Kovach, and all of the tutors, woA-studies, and clients at the UNH Writing Center were my family at UNH. The fact that you’re reading this dissertation now has much to do with the folks at the center who gave good advice, access to paper and Xeroxing, and, most of all, support. As for all of the other graduate students and instructors who have lit the way ahead of me, many thanks to you all. I will miss all of you all, and if you ever need a place to crash in New Haven, Connecticut, let me know. There is one group of folks here at UNH, and at UNHM, who I literally owe everything to: the teachers and students who let me write about their work. Pam Oliver at UNHM and Warren at UNH let me into their classrooms and their lives, and I’m forever grateful for that. For the students that populated those classes, well I hope that you realize that you are the stars of this woric, and that‘T am nothing without you.” As for my own English 401 students, who were my first research subjects in the spring of 1998, much thanks. Thank you for giving me access to your woi^ and thank you for being, without a doubt, one of the finest classes I’ve ever taught. Finally, on a more personal note I want to thank my family. My mother and father, who this text is dedicated to, have supported me throughout my woric, both financially and emotionally.

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