Selfe uses the example of David, who is technologically literate but fails his college composition classes because "he couldn't produce a traditional essay organized according to the print-based literacy standards of linear propositional logic, Standard English, argumentative development, and standard spelling (49). How does this complicate our considerations of the arguments against teaching the traditional essay?
Are theorists such as Selfe and Sirc placing too much emphasis on the art of composition as a primarily visual art? Can composition have an artistic influence without a specifically visual emphasis?
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