ABSTRACT
The present collection of chapters was written by technical and professional writers and
teachers who have come by different means to the same conclusion: that if you want
something done right when it comes to information technology and writing instruction
and research, you have to do it yourself. Not all of us, of course, do all of it ourselves.
Some of us collaborate with professional programmers to design instructional resources
that are both informed by writing pedagogies and more responsive to our disciplinary
needs. Others of us use commercially available software to write and design instruc-
tional modules that can fit inside existing electronic environments. Some of us install
and tailor open-source software to better suit our unique needs as writing researchers
and teachers. And still others among us, fascinated by the unexpected similarities
between writing code and writing prose, and conscious of the fact that text has become
an interactive medium, taught ourselves how to program for the Web.
