Re: email-tutoring

[Eric Crump <wleric@showme.missouri.edu>]

On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, David J. Coogan wrote:
-->What I enjoy most about technology studies is that it seems to force us,
-->sometimes unwillingly, into conclusions like that.  Do we really want a
-->dictionary that includes my thoughts and your thoughts?  

Yes!

-->What value is there in that? 

It's a chance to let the people who make language describe language.
That's not to say dictionary-makers will go outta business, but they can
share some space with the rest of us. 

Check out RhetNet sometime. It's a dialogic academic journal. Or maybe
it's not a journal at all. Journals (if we think the print journal defines
the form) do not allow just anybody to publish, not just anybody can have
a say, share ideas. 

A good place to start, maybe, would be Fred Kemp's snapshot: An
Alternative Described (or Classrooms: Morph or Die?) at
http://www.missouri.edu/~rhetnet/kemp2/

There's a web form there. Anybody can extend Fred's esssay. Anybody. 

--Eric Crump