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.