by
Charles Lowe
Florida
State University
Currents in Electronic Literacy Spring 2001 (4), <http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/spr01/lowe.html>
Endnotes
3. Notice that I have chosen to avoid applying the word “writing” to speech recognition produced text, using instead such wordy phrases as textual production or textual generation. On the other hand, Harrison attempts to appropriate writing into speech recognition with his term “SoundWriter.” The problem is that Harrison has fallen into the trap of refusing to deny that speech recognition may produce text that is not quite writing. Also, notice how by using “sound” instead of “speech” he privileges writing as the communication process–sound does not necessarily imply communication. Thus, the label of SoundWriter renders his argument for counter-hegemonic identity construction problematic. In order to adequately address the issue of identity construction, we must first identify ourselves as compositionists, not writing teachers.