Bibliographic Details
Authors and Corporations: Purves, Alan C.
In: Journal of Basic Writing, 14, 1995, 1, p. 15-20
published:
City University of New York
Media Type: Article, E-Article

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Physical Description: 15-20
ISSN: 0147-1635
published in: Journal of Basic Writing
Language: English
Collection: sid-55-col-jstoras14
JSTOR Arts & Sciences XIV Archive
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<p>In this brief excursus, the writer critiques the metaphors out of which basic writing has emerged and looks jocularly at the new possibilities. He then suggests that with the new technologies of writing, we are all at a novice level and need to rethink what we mean by composition in an age when writing is the manipulation of images in hyperspace.</p>