Mission Statement

Information technologies are rapidly and fundamentally changing our work and work organization, our teaching and learning, our lives and recreation. That’s especially true in terms of how one of our oldest information technologies – writing – is being transformed. At the CWRL, we explore how information technologies are changing the ways we produce and consume texts, the ways we argue, and how we can flexibly address these sociotechnical changes. We

• Investigate how information technologies have changed the ways that people learn, work, and live;
• Encourage innovative, sustainable, theoretically informed pedagogies and pedagogical resources for teaching sociotechnical writing;
• Develop flexible technologies, research approaches, and theoretical and methodological frameworks for studying sociotechnical writing; and
• Promote discussions about the impact of information technologies in the liberal arts.

Through this work, we help students to become creative, effective citizens who can provide leadership and critical thinking in tomorrow’s workplaces and civic arenas.