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Programmatic Responses
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Computers and Technical Communication: Pedagogical and Programmatic Perspectives (ATTW Contemporary Studies in Technical Communication)
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The essays collected in this volume address the full range of pedagogical and programmatic issues specifically facing technical communication teachers and programme directors in the computer age. The authors locate computers and computing activities within the richly-textured cultural contexts of a technological society, focusing on the technical communication instructional issues that remain most important as old versions of hardware and software are endlessly replaced by new ones. Part One, "Broadening Notions of Computer Literacy", complicates mechanistic approaches to computer-related instruction by locating the design and use of hardware and software within social, cultural, political, ethical and legal contexts. Part Two examines how teachers and programme directors can encourage critical literacies in their classrooms and programmes. At the same time, it considers how computer technologies such as the World Wide Web, hypertext, electronic mail, Internet discussion groups and real-time conferencing environments might challenge traditional notions of technical communication pedagogical practice. Building on the first two sections, Part Three, "Examining Computer-Supported Communication Facilities from Pedagogical Perspectives", explores a wide range of instructional and political challenges in designing and supporting the robust computing needs of technical communication programmes. Part Four, "Planning for Technological Changes in Technical Communication Programmes", outlines some long-term ways of thinking about computers and technical communications that are instructionally and institutionally productive for students, teachers and programme directors.

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Del Campo: La Divina Comedia and Other Orchestral Music
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ONCE IN A BLUE MOON ONE LITERALLY STUMBLES INTO A COMPOSER OF WHOSE EXISTENCE ONE HAS NO IDEA. THUS IT HAS HAPPENED WITH CONRADO DEL CAMPO, AN OUTSTANDING COMPOSER STRADDLING THE BELLE EPOQUE AND FIRST PART OF THE 20TH CENTURY. HIS BIOGRAPHY INDICATES HE WAS MUSICALLY EDUCATED ENTIRELY IN SPAIN, THAT HE STUDIED UNDER THE LIKES OF CASSALS AND THAT HE WAS INFLUENCED BY WAGNER AND STRAUSS RATHER THAN BY THE FRENCH COMPOSERS OF HIS DAY. THIS IS THE ONLY RECORD OF HIS MUSIC THAT I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FIND IN THE CATALOGUE, WITH SAMPLES FROM 1908 TO 1952. ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT I LOVE HOW HE IS ABLE TO WEAVE SPANISH RYTHMS INTO THE CLASSICAL IDIOM WITHOUT FALLING INTO ANDALUSIAN COMMONPLACES A LA CARMEN.
OPULENT, EXQUISTE, MOVING MUSIC. oN THE VOCAL PART, FRANCES LUCEY AND DULCE MARIA SANCHEZ DO A COMMENDABLE JOB, AND ADRIAN LEAPER DIRECTS AN IMPRESIVE ORQUESTA FILARMONICA DE GRAN CANARIA. FIVE STARS!