ACW Connections

What is the ACW CONNECTIONS?

The Format of ACW CONNECTIONS
ACW CONNECTIONS is the newsletter of the Alliance for Computers and Writing. It is unique in that it is designed to be delivered monthly in three "media." First, it is mailed as an email message to all registered members of the ACW who can receive electronic mail. Second, it is mailed by postal mail to those members who cannot receive email. Third, it is posted in the ACW's World Wide Web pages (http://prairie_island.ttu.edu/acw/acw.html). In fact, ACW CONNECTIONS is assembled first in a Filemaker Pro database that can generate automatically the proper format for all three.

What is in ACW CONNECTIONS?
ACW CONNECTIONS seeks to explain to its members some of the more inexplicable elements of using computers in the teaching of writing and literature. The "articles" in the newsletter will be short, in consideration of our email/web readers, no more than about 30-40 lines each. They will attempt to survey the resources available to teachers and researchers, including the various organizations, committees, journals, and electronic resources. ACW CONNECTIONS will also upoack the jargon of the Internet, explaining in practical terms the "MUDs" and "MOOs" and "browsers" and their kin, providing, we hope, the ACW member with clear distinctions between categories of software and applications. The teacher new to computers and writing should, after several months, begin to map the various elements in the field, discovering what should be further explained and where to go to find the explanation.

Who contributes to the newletter?
We hope that ACW members will, through their efforts in the field, discover a variety of processes or resources an understanding of which could benefit other members of the Alliance, and that they will write these up in about 30 lines of text and mail it to ALLIANCE@TTACS.TTU.EDU. Useful and clearly written explanations will make their way to ACW CONNECTIONS and out to our rapidly increasing membership.