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Listservs --Diane C. Boehm, Saginaw Valley State University I have been teaching composition classes with a computer component for a decade, and find myself always re-inventing. I have incorporated e-mail in several ways: e-mail chat groups, e-mail journals with a partner in another instructor's class, e-mail talk for peer critique of a draft. Student response to all of them was very positive: they like the fact that they are writing to a real audience, a peer, rather than the teacher; many feel more free to express opinions than they would in oral discussion; they like feeling like they are in control of these processes . . . My students did a rhetorical analysis of a listserv. Many had never joined one before; most have now subscribed to one or more they discovered and found useful. (next entry)
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