As new media mature, the changes they bring to writing in college are many and suggest implications not only for the tools of writing, but also for...
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Oct 19, 2011
Mike
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I am conflicted by this collection of essays, and will present the good before the bad. The end products for which the authors advocate are in themselves interesting. For a while, I too have felt that traditional composition classes need to "get with the program," and introduce theories and writing methods to present the technological advances of today. The Sirc article "Box-Logic" stresses that composition is more about the collecting and shaping of information than the line
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Oct 19, 2011
Sean
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Perhaps because I come from a modern generation, and because I have a creative bent, and because I went to a magnet high school that required reflective group projects... this book seems like it is preaching to the choir. Yes, we should use not only variegated images in our rhetoric/teaching, but also the projects themselves should make students question the aspects of writing's presentation.
The real power of this book is the amount of "new media" activities that could rea More...
The real power of this book is the amount of "new media" activities that could rea More...
Jan 31, 2010
Michael
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In this fine collection, Wysocki, Johnson-Eilola, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Sirc provide a chapter or two each arguing about an aspect of new media and composition studies, and then a section offering classroom activities with rationales. This is the second time I've read it (January 2010), and I found even richer than the first time.
Just a few key notes that I want to remember from this text:
Wysocki: Because writing teachers are practiced in situating writing in context and More...
Just a few key notes that I want to remember from this text:
Wysocki: Because writing teachers are practiced in situating writing in context and More...
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