Abstract
Abstract: This article addresses the hypothesis that scholarly argument as it is presently pursued is mediated through print; but the advent of modern ICT offers alternative media to support scholarly publication. However, few academics have much expertise with these media. Accordingly, if this technology is to be fully exploited the academic community will need to acquire such expertise and this may have significant implications or the way in which scholarly argument is constructed. This hypothesis is addressed from a rhetorical perspective and consideration is given to what the impact of alternative publication media may be on the structure of scholarly argument. Editors: Simon Buckingham Shum (Open Univ., UK) Reviewers: Locke Carter (Texas Tech. U., USA), David Kolb (Bates College, USA), Agnes Kukulska-Hulme (Open U., UK) Interactive elements: This aubmission comes in three versions, as explained in Sec. 1.2 : A conventional print version ( PDF ) A version with hypertext navigation (the version you are reading now in the JIME user interface ) A Navihedron hypertext version with a visual document navigation tool is available. This requires the Macromedia Shockwave plugin.
Highlights
It is clear that the impact of contemporary information and communications technologies (ICTs) on Higher Education is and will be almost unimaginably profound
That is the impact of this technology on the ways in which we construct scholarly argument1
Since we largely valorise those arguments that are eventually published in print, I propose to restrict my remarks to a consideration of the impact of this technology on the construction of print(able) arguments
Summary
It is clear that the impact of contemporary information and communications technologies (ICTs) on Higher Education is and will be almost unimaginably profound. There is one key area of impact that has, as yet, I believe received too little consideration. That is the impact of this technology on the ways in which we construct scholarly argument. For most of the last 400 years scholarly argument has largely been published to the world via the medium of print. Published via other media, e.g. lectures, seminars and tutorials. Since we largely valorise those arguments that are eventually published in print, I propose to restrict my remarks to a consideration of the impact of this technology on the construction of print(able) arguments
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