Web Writing Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning / Jack Dougherty and Tennyson O'Donnell, editors. - 1 online resource (xv, 257 pages) : illustrations ; - Digital humanities . - Digital humanities (Ann Arbor, Mich.) Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Open Access

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 --

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Education, Humanistic--United States.
Scholarly electronic publishing.
Internet publishing.
Online authorship--Study and teaching.
Online authorship.


Electronic books.

PN171.O55 / W43 2015

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