One of the "Upcoming topics" on the sidebar reads "How to beg-off writing/creating an article/web-thing even though you should be writing it really, but you are gasping for air." I fear I must announce, however, that I've been an utter failure in being able to beg-off anything and have been persuaded to write such an article for an upcoming issue Computers & Writing edited by Shelley Rodrigo and Matthew Kim. The overall subject matter for this issue is rhetorical media and open access institutions. In their call for papers, Rodrigo and Kim define rhetorical media as an almalgam of all sorts of new media --including web texts, audio, video, and other web 2.0 stuff. Here's my grandiose (and accepted!) proposal: “New Media and the Twenty First Century Open Access Writing Tutor: How Writing Center Work Will Never be the Same Again” The days where students came to writing centers with “papers” to be talked/worked over are pretty much gone, particula
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