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ALEXIS	Schrauwen, Dick Looijmans, Paul J.	1984	Helps teachers comment on student work by translating codes input by the teacher into commentary texts of feedback (Jansen, Steehouder, Pilot, Schrauwen, Looijmans, pp. 35-36).
Aspects			Software suite for group authorship. Accommodates up to 12 users and includes a chat function for co-authors. Described in Day & Batson (1995).
BURKE	Burns, Hugh L.	1977
ClassWriter			Software suite including The Electronic Dialectical Notebook and Conversation. Described in Day & Batson (1995).
CLEARCUT			CLEARCUT identifies problem words that confuse meaning and suggests shorter, clearer alternatives (Mortenson, 1987, pp. 71).
COLLABORATIVE WRITER			A Macintosh program composed of checklists for collaborative writing tasks as well as drafting and revision guidelines (Boston, 1990, pp. 95-96).
Comments	Neuwirth, Christine	1989
COMPTRACE	Oberschlep, John	1985	Records every keystroke and then replays composing session (Zeni Flinn, pp. 31).
Conference Writer			Word processor with integrated sharing tools. Described in Day & Batson (1995).
Contact	Burns, Hugh L.		An email program. Part of the Daedalus suite. Described in Day & Batson (1995).
Conversation			Network messaging tool. Part of ClassWriter suite. Described in Day & Batson (1995).
Create/Recreate	Arms, Valerie Gibson, Jim		Document-commenting program that supported teachers in providing students with feedback, including tutorials on mechanical issues and the ability to connect a comment to particular text (Leblanc, 1993, pp. 34 ff., 157). [Date is earliest mention.]
Creative Problem-Solving	Rodrigues, Dawn Rodrigues, Raymond J.		Document-commenting program that supported teachers in providing students with feedback, including tutorials on mechanical issues and the ability to connect a comment to particular text (Leblanc, 1993, pp. 34 ff., 157). [Date is earliest mention.]
CSILE (Computer-Supported Intentional Learning Environment)	Scardamalia, Marlene Bereiter, Carl McLean, Robert S.Swallow, Jonathan Woodruff, Earl	1989
Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment	Burns, Hugh L.		Suite of networked writing and messaging tools.
EVALUATE	Asselin, P.		Software that highlights personal pronouns and prints out a readability report (Mortenson, 1987, pp. 70).
Eyeball	Ross, Donald Rasche, Robert
Forum	Boston, Robert		Networked discussion software. Described in Day & Batson (1995): http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/1.2/coverweb/cmcmday.html
Forum	Kemp, Fred O.Taylor, Paul Butler, Wayne Carter, Locke	1987
FREE	Strickland, James	1981
HOMER	Lanham, Richard Cohen, Michael		Text analysis program that provides stylistic feedback (Little, pp. 107).
HOWL			A computer conferencing system that used "topic" threads to facilitate online discussion (Orr, 1998, pg. 98).
Hypercard	Atkinson, Bill	1987	A program that allows users to create hypermedia systems that link text, graphics, video and sound (Slatin, 1992, pp.109).
HyperStudio	Wagner, Roger	1989	Multimodal publishing platform for Apple II
IDEAFISHER	Fisher, Marsh		IDEAFISHER is an idea development software that includes an extensive thesaurus, a notepad for word processing and questions to stimulate creative thought (Wallia, 1990, pp. 105).
Idealog	Burns, Hugh L.Kemp, Fred O.Bump, Jerome	1986
Interchange	Kemp, Fred O.Taylor, Paul Butler, Wayne Carter, Locke	1988	A networked chat program allowing for realtime digital class discussions. Part of the Daedalus suite. Described in Day & Batson (1995): http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/1.2/coverweb/cmcmday.html. Other details from LeBlanc, 1993.
Invent	Burns, Hugh L.Kemp, Fred O.Bump, Jerome		Program for invention that includes heuristic questions for writers derived from Aristotle, Burke, and tagmemic theory. Described in Day & Batson (1995): http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/1.2/coverweb/cmcmday.html
MILE	Rockwell, Geoffrey Johnson, Joanna Piro, Rocco	2000	MILE (McMaster Interactive Lesson Environment) could teach students terminology and grammar and composition skills using multiple choice questions (Buckley; 2000) Superseded by WebMILE.
Mindwriter	Burns, Hugh L.Kemp, Fred O.Bump, Jerome		Hypertext, networked based writing environment (LeBlanc, 1993, p. 159)
Netware		1983	Creates a virtual classroom in which students and teachers can retrieve shared files and send messages for peer review (Curtis and Moran pp. 67).
Notes	Neuwirth, Christine
Online Writing Program	Hewett, Beth L.
OpenForum			Networked brainstorming and feedback tool: "A hypercard based brainstorming tool which uses Appletalk to share idea windows. Each post is appended to the session record, which all other connected participants can view and respond to." Description by Day & Batson (1995): http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/1.2/coverweb/cmcmday.html
Organize	Nachman, Louis Schwartz, Helen J.		[needs more information] (LeBlanc, 1993, p. 34)
PARSE			A program that counts characters, words and action verbs. It provides a grade-level reading report (Mortenson, 1987, pp. 90).
POETICS	Plummer, John F.	1986	Offers tutorials, practices, and an authoring system for teaching elements of speech in poetry (Norman, pp. 100).
Prep Editor		1993
Prewrite	Schwartz, Mimi
Prose	Kaplan, Nancy Davis, Stuart Martin, Joseph	1989
Real-time Writer			Networked chat environment. Has real-time chat and search feature. Described in Day & Batson (1995): http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/1.2/coverweb/cmcmday.html
Respond	Burns, Hugh L.		A heuristic for peer review. Part of the Daedalus suite. Described in Day & Batson (1995): http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/1.2/coverweb/cmcmday.html
SEEN	Schwartz, Helen J.	1992
Seen: Tutorials for Critical Reading	Schwartz, Helen J.	1982	Seen is a series of "tutorials" that pose reflective questions to students. After working through a tutorial, students post their work to a public board (Dorwick, 1992, pp. 101).
Storyspace	Bolter, Jay David Joyce, Michael	1987	Allows readers to add links and change text to create hypertext fiction (Clark, 2001).
STYLED	Crew, Louie		A program that reviews text on a sentence level to analyze word length, punctuation, syntax and nominalization (Mortenson, 1987, pp. 70).
TAGI	Burns, Hugh L.	1997
TeamFocus	Batson, Trent W.		This set of tools was developed for group decision-support but is also used as a sequence of environments to support groups going through a writing process. On local-area networks. Description from Day & Batson (1995): http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/1.2/coverweb/cmcmday.html
The Electronic Dialectical Notebook			Described in Day & Batson (1995): http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/1.2/coverweb/cmcmday.html
Thoughtline	Burns, Dan Giansiracusa, Robert	1988
TK3	Stein, Bob		Program that allows novice computer users to create multimedia ebooks that "integrate word, image, video, sound, and web links" (Kuhn 2005).
TOOLBOOK		1990	TOOLBOOK is a hypertext and hypermedia authoring tool, often compared to Hypercard (Fortune, 1992, pp. 118-119). The final version was released in 2012.
TOPOI	Burns, Hugh L.	1977
TRANSTEXT			A hypertext program that uses keyboard commands to summon embedded files (Larsen, 1990, pp. 100).
WE (Writing Environment)	Smith, John B.
Wordswork	Selfe, Cynthia L.Wahlstrom, Billie, J.
Write	Burns, Hugh L.		Basic word processor. Part of the Daedalus suite. Described in Day & Batson (1995): http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/1.2/coverweb/cmcmday.html
Writer's Helper for Windows			Software that offers prewriting and writing strategies using model formats and peer review (Posey, 1992, pp. 94). Earlier versions of this software include Writer's Helper and Writer's Helper, Stage II.