Patricia Portanova
Gail E. Hawisher (University of Illinois) and Cynthia L. Selfe (Ohio State University), Founders
Computers and Composition Digital Press (CCDP) is committed to publishing innovative, multimodal digital projects. The Press will also publish ebooks (print texts in electronic form available for reading online or for downloading); however, we are particularly interested in digital projects that cannot be printed on paper, but that have the same intellectual heft as a book.
The goal of the Press is to honor the traditional academic values of rigorous peer review and intellectual excellence, but also to combine such work with a commitment to innovative digital scholarship and expression. For the Editors, the Press represents an important kind of scholarly activism--an effort to circulate the best work of digital media scholars in a timely fashion and on the global scale made possible by digital distribution.
Authors interested in proposing ebooks and projects to Computers and Composition Digital Press should follow the CCDP submission process.
Patricia Portanova
Patricia Portanova is Associate Professor of English at Northern Essex Community College, where she teaches writing and communication. She earned her Ph.D. in Composition Studies from the University of New Hampshire, where she served as editor of Transitions, a journal of undergraduate writing. She has served as chair of the Northeast Writing Across the Curriculum Consortium (NEWACC) and currently co-chairs the Cognition and Writing Special Interest Group at CCCC. Her research focuses on cognition and writing, civic inquiry, and public rhetoric.
Writing While Distracted: Negotiating Screen-Time
As we continue to become more wired, more connected, and more reliant on technology, it's important that we continue to explore the impact of the ever-present screen on our writing lives.
