About Us


Mission Statement

Information technologies are rapidly and fundamentally changing our work and work organization, our teaching and learning, our lives and recreation. That’s especially true in terms of how one of our oldest information technologies – writing – is being transformed. At the CWRL, we explore how information technologies are changing the ways we produce and consume texts, the ways we argue, and how we can flexibly address these sociotechnical changes. We

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CWRL History

What follows is from "The Computer Writing and Research Lab: A Brief Institutional History," by John Slatin, Director of the CWRL 1989–2000. The complete text can be found in Language Learning Online: Theory and Practice in the ESL and L2 Computer Classroom, edited by Janet Swaffar, Susan Romano, Phillip Markley, and Katherine Arens (Austin, TX, Labyrinth Publications: 1998), pages 19–38.

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Contact Information

Diane DavisDiane Davis, Director
ddd@mail.utexas.edu
Office: PAR 19
Phone: 512–471-8735

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CWRL Locations

The CWRL supports five classrooms and one lab for CWRL students.

Classroom locations - FAC 7, FAC 9, FAC 10, PAR 104, and PAR 6.
Instructor lab - FAC 14
CWRL office - FAC 8.

CWRL student lab - PAR 102.
PAR 102 open lab hours:
Monday: 9am - 5pm
Tuesday: 9am - 8pm
Wednesday: 9am - 5pm
Thursday: 9am - 5pm
Friday: 9am - 11am

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