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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136925503321

Titolo

Web writing : why and how for liberal arts teaching and learning / / Jack Dougherty and Tennyson O'Donnell, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, Michigan : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-472-12135-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 257 pages :) : illustrations ;

Collana

Digital Humanities

Disciplina

302.23/1

Soggetti

Online authorship

Internet publishing

Scholarly electronic publishing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Sister classrooms: blogging across disciplines and campuses -- Indigenizing Wikipedia: student accountability to Native American authors on the world's largest encyclopedia -- Science writing, wikis, and collaborative learning -- Cooperative in-class writing with Google Docs -- Co-writing, peer editing, and publishing in the cloud -- How we learned to drop the quiz: writing in online asynchronous courses -- Tweet me a story -- Civic engagement: political web writing with the Stephen Colbert super PAC -- Public writing and student privacy -- Consider the audience -- Creating the reader-viewer: engaging students with scholarly web texts -- Pulling back the curtain: writing history through video games -- Getting uncomfortable: identity exploration in a multi-class blog -- Writing as curation: using a 'building' and 'breaking' pedagogy to teach culture in the digital age -- Student digital research and writing on slavery -- Web writing as intercultural dialogue -- The secondary source sitting next to you -- Web writing and citation: the authority of communities -- Empowering education with social annotation and wikis -- There are no new directions in annotations.

Sommario/riassunto

The essays in Web Writing respond to contemporary debates over the proper role of the Internet in higher education, steering a middle



course between polarized attitudes that often dominate the conversation. The authors argue for the wise integration of web tools into what the liberal arts does best: writing across the curriculum --