Ocotillo Textbook & Technology Day 2005

Fred Kemp (author for Thompson/Wadsworth)

After teaching English and language arts in public schools for 9 years, Fred Kemp received his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition, with an emphasis in Computer-Based Rhetoric, at the University of Texas at Austin in 1988, where he was instrumental in founding and directing UT's Computer Writing Research Lab. Dr. Kemp is currently a member of the NCTE Instructional Technology Committee and is a past chair and current member of the CCCC Computers in Composition Committee. He is co-director of the Alliance for Computers and Writing, for whom he manages a set of World Wide Web Pages.

Fred is also founder and current president of The Daedalus Group, Inc, a company prominent in the development of educational software, and is co-author of DIWE, the "Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment" (1990 EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL award winner for best writing software). The Internet email discussion lists he has founded include Megabyte University (MBU-L), ACW-L, and WCENTER. He has written and presented extensively about computer-based writing pedagogies.