About the Author

Cynthia Haynes is Assistant Professor in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas where she teaches both graduate and undergraduate rhetoric, composition, and electronic pedagogy. As Director of Rhetoric and Writing, she manages a networked computer classroom and directs the first-year undergraduate Rhetoric program. Her publications have appeared in Pre/Text, Composition Studies, The Writing Center Journal, St. Martin's Guide to Tutoring Writing, and Writing Lab Newsletter. She is currently working on book chapters for collections on textual-based virtual reality, rhetorical theory and cyberspace, writing and ethics, keywords in composition, and prosthetics rhetorics. In addition, she is Guest Editor of a forthcoming special double issue of Pre/Text on "Virtual Rhetorics." She is a member of the Executive Committee of AEE (Alternative Education Environments) and co-founder of Lingua MOO, a textual-based virtual synchronous learning environment for UT-Dallas students and faculty.

A substantially shorter version of this essay was delivered to the Conference on College Composition and Communication in San Diego, March, 1993. The sections on using MOOs in teaching appeared in a talk she delivered to the NCTE conference in Orlando, November, 1994. Both of those conference papers were combined in the final chapter ("Technologies of Ethos: Composition Pedagogy in a Bimodern Age") of her dissertation, In the Name of Writing: Rhetoric and the Politics of Ethos, completed at The University of Texas at Arlington, December, 1994.

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