There's no denying that television is a forceful presence in students' lives. Yet in writing classrooms the assumption is often that television is only an obstacle to teaching critical print literacy.

Introduction: Converging Literacies, Conflicting Literacies: Why We Must Consider Television When We Teaching Writing 1. A Social Inoculation: The Resistance in Composition to Considering the Influence of Television/Classroom Practice 2. Ways of Watching: Learning from Students' Print and Television Literacy Histories/ Classroom Practice 3. A Valuable Wasteland: What Students Learn about Rhetoric from Watching Television/Classroom Practice 4. At the Speed of Light: Time, Space, and Student Attitudes toward Print Literacy/Classroom Practice 5. Switching Channels: Authority and Authorship on Television and in Print/Classroom Practice 6. Reading by the Light of the Tube: Making Meaning from Television Texts/Classroom Practice 7. "We're Rebellious, But We Want to Make Money": Consumer Culture, Class, and Television/Classroom Practice 8. Shimmering Literacies: Television's Place in the Future of Teaching Writing