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dents' lives, and that compositionists should expect the inter-
play of these inequities to affect students' work.
• Discover that writing with technology illustrates how success-
ful resistance occurs in the classroom and offers evidence for
promise and possibilities in generating writing and thinking
that is out of the box.
• Address the ways in which writing with technology is complex
and requires students and instructors to take risks in their ev-
eryday practices.
• Demonstrate how writing with technologies shows that the
past and present imbalances caused by social forces and that
deny access can be overcome.

D. Porter (1999) pace Lyotard is right: None of us in the teaching
of writing can escape our obligation to the institutions we teach for
and remove ourselves from judging writing. However, composi-
tionists can use the technologies we have before us to make the eval-
uations fair, just, and understandable to all involved. The point is to
ensure that both instructors and students have sufficient access to
and knowledge of these technologies before mandating their use in
the classroom.