Removing computer phobia from the writing classroom

Computer phobics among teachers of writing to L2 students should take heart. Experience in institutions in the United States has shown what a valuable aid to teaching even basic word processing can be. We should be able to use their example without defensiveness, adapting it to our own circumstances. Strategies employed in an American university in the United Kingdom could well be employed by other institutions attempting to meet a mandate for computer use in their programmes. The computer has to be recognized as a teaching tool rather than a technological threat.