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dc.contributor.authorLindgren, Christopher Aaron
dc.description.abstractAs the calendar turned over to 2012, an online learning initiative, Codecademy, declared it “Code Year”—the year “for everyone” to learn code. Within six months, this call has received much attention from the public and scholars in the university. Yet, this history and theory paper more deeply investigates this call for a new mass literacy, which was actually proposed back in the 1960s as procedural literacy, i.e., proceduracy. Accordingly, a history is told about how Computer Science ignored Alan Perlis’ call for procedural literacy and Rhetoric and Composition has just recently begun to address Marshall McLuhan’s media turn. From there, this paper connects new scholarship and applications surrounding the unexamined persuasive and expressive faculties of processes to literacy scholar Annette Vee’s levels of proceduracy. Finally, conclusions and implications of Rhetoric and Composition’s involvement in the deeper engagement with the writing of code are discussed.en_US
dc.publisherNorth Dakota State Universityen_US
dc.rightsNDSU Policy 190.6.2
dc.titleWhere's the Revolution?: From "Code Year" to the Continuum of Proceduracyen_US
dc.typeMaster's paperen_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-07-24T21:46:43Z
dc.date.available2012-07-24T21:46:43Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10365/21662
dc.subject.lcshRhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Computer-assisted instructionen_US
dc.subject.lcshComputer programmingen_US
dc.subject.lcshInternet literacyen_US
dc.subject.lcshComputers and literacyen_US
dc.subject.lcshProgramming languages (Electronic computers) -- Web-based instructionen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdfen_US
ndsu.degreeMaster of Arts (MA)en_US
ndsu.collegeArts, Humanities, and Social Sciencesen_US
ndsu.departmentEnglishen_US
ndsu.programEnglishen_US
ndsu.advisorBrooks, Kevin


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