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April 14, 2005
(Automated) Comp for All
Writing and writing instruction are everybody's business and everybody's expertise. We have the physicist John Barrie writing the highly successful Turnitin program—and with it a whole pile (and I do mean pile) of pedagogical apparatus. The comp publishing company Prentice-Hall actually picks up Barrie's service and packages it with their marketing junk. When they drop it, Wadsworth picks it up and packages it with InSite.
Oh, goody. And a marketing prof has now decided that people should take Microsoft Word's grammar checker seriously and should improve it, so that it can help non-native speakers.
Yowza and wowzer.
Hell, I can just retire. Who needs comp/rhet when all these geniuses are going to automate our work? Both text production and text reception can be done so very, very handily by these dandy lil programs.
Posted by senioritis at April 14, 2005 09:36 PM
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another link to automated comp stuff:
Computer program grades papers for us. I s'pose I should quit while I'm ahead. :)
Posted by: madeline at April 18, 2005 08:28 PM
crud. the link didn't work. howz bout this?
http://news.com.com/Teachers+leave+grading+up+to+the+computer/2100-1032_3-5659366.html?part=rss&tag=
Posted by: madeline at April 18, 2005 08:33 PM