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Digital Tools in Composition Studies: Critical Dimensions and Implications (Oviedo, Walker, Hawk)

 
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Title: Digital Tools in Composition Studies
Sub-title: Critical Dimensions and Implications
Editor(s): Ollie O, Oviedo, Joyce R. Walker, and Byron Hawk
Publish Date: March 2010
Pages: 372
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This volume considers the use of specific digital tools and their relationships to various composing processes and practices. The analysis of digital texts and digital spaces has often been governed by a conflation of all the different software and hardware into the general category “computers.” However, computers are a multiplicity of tools that in various configurations carry great potential to alter the form, position or condition of any object or person that encounters them. What this means for composition is that the computer is simply one configuration of digital tools that carries the potential for many different configurations with particular writing assignments, theoretical or conceptual ideas, selected readings, individual user histories and institutional constraints. All of these and more need to be taken into account when choosing digital tools, designing assignments, conducting readings, and grouping students collaboratively, Each essay examines the ways a particular digital tool can work in concert with various processes and practices to shape both the writing context as well as the production of texts to yield a more critical understanding of the composition classroom.

Contents: Introduction—From Stasis to Activity: Centering Digital Tools on Processes and Practices, Joyce R. Walker and Byron Hawk. HISTORIES AND INDIVIDUAL AUTHORING TOOLS. Tracing the Development of Digital Tools for Writers and Writing Teachers: A Brief History, Mike Palmquist. Wordprocessing and Composition, Michael Pemberton. MOO Programming in the Composition Classroom, Keith Dorwick. Web Authoring Software and Electronic Expertise, Christopher Schroeder. Making Meaning Online: A Comparison of Template versus Code-Based Tools for Composition, Joyce R. Walker. WEB AND MULTIMEDIA TOOLS. Navigation, Composition, and Browsers, Jeff Rice. Toward a New Pedagogy of Secondary Orality: Presentation Tools as Composing Devices, Tim McGee. Moving Writing: A Critical Approach to Animation in Composition, Madeleine Sorapure. Aural Tools: Who’s Listening? Scott Halbritter. Burning and Looting in Composition: CD-ROMs as Digital Tools in the Writing Classroom, Mike Pennell. COLLABORATIVE AND INTERACTIVE TOOLS. Forcing Square Pegs into Round Holes, of What Happened to MOOs in the Classroom? Janice R. Walker. Digital Ideologies and Eportfolio Software: Toward a Rhetoric of Hybridity, Kristine Blair. Think Before You Blog: What Teachers and Students Can Learn About Audience and Academic Responsibility, Daisy Pignetti. Wikis: Online Communities Sharing Texts, Matthew D. Barton. Author Index. Subject Index.


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