Scott Paul Gordon

Lehigh University English Department

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My LEAST favorite EPIPHANY quotations/notions:

• "the real problem is the age of print"

• "recapturing the richness" of an oral c ulture (without articulating the "richness" of a print culture)

• "liberating students to write a new way . . . [or] back to the five-paragraph essay"

• distinguishing "print" from "cyber" in a hierarchical m odel which figures print and its ideologies as backward, repressive, and inevitably outdated

Questions that EPIPHANY hesitates to acknowledge as still contestable (figuring them, instead, as backward and needing to be overcome by means of a personal con version [i.e., Epiphanites have seen the way that everybody would, if only visio nary, also see]):

• Do non-linear thinking and new hyper-literacies req uire us to employ models of assessment that reward for "participatio n" rather than discriminate between persuasive/unpersuasive, documented/u ndocumented, or better/worse?

• Can we use the NEW technologies to improve our use of the OLD model of literacy?