writing technologies

Find the Best Tools for the Job: Experimenting with Writing Workflows

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Derek Van Ittersum & Tim Lockridge Volume 4 Chapter Description This chapter introduces “writing workflows,” a concept that helps writers examine how tools shape writing processes.* It suggests that writing does not take place solely in the mind, with the tools merely transcribing that activity. Instead, it describes how any experience of writing is shaped […]

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Read the Room! Navigating Social Contexts and Written Texts

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Sarah Seeley, Kelly Xu, & Matthew Chenn Melzer Volume 4 Chapter Description This chapter is a collaboration between a professor (Sarah Seeley) and two former students (Kelly Xu and Matthew Chen). We begin with a discussion of a key concept: the discourse community. In doing so, we illustrate why it is necessary to examine the

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Understanding and Maintaining Your Privacy When Writing with Digital Technologies

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Lindsey C. Kim Volume 4 Chapter Description As our students utilize more networked technologies in their writing, it has become critical that both students and teachers understand the role privacy plays in their digital activity. This chapter aims to help students understand why privacy is an important concept to consider when writing online and to

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Public Writing for Social Change

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Ashley J. Holmes Volume 4 Chapter Description This essay challenges students to use public writing to embrace their role as an “academic citizen” (i.e., someone who takes the writing and research we do in college and puts it to practical and civic use in our communities in the hopes of contributing toward positive social change).

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The Rhetorical Possibilities of Accessibility

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Rachel Donegan Volume 4 Chapter Description In this chapter, I provide some basic terminology and context for disability and accessibility and discuss how access features not only have direct benefits for a disabled audience, but are beneficial rhetorical bonuses for all writers (nondisabled and disabled).* By emphasizing access in their writing projects, students have the

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Technologies of Trust: Creating Networks of Goodwill for Collaboration

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Lance Cummings, Rin Jackson, & Moriah Yancey Volume 4 Chapter Description Most students dread that fateful “group project,” often for good reasons. Our past experiences with group work sometimes don’t speak well to this kind of project.* But most writing in the 21st century is deeply collaborative and happens mostly in digital spaces. Observing the

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Writing with Your Peers

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Raquel Corona, Kami Day, & Michele Eodice Volume 4 Chapter Description This chapter advocates for student writers to collaborate and coauthor. When opportunities to write together are offered—as part of in-class or outside-class writing assignments—students can benefit in a number of ways, including learning how audiences are addressed and how immediate feedback can become a

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Four Things Social Media Can Teach You about College Writing—and One Thing It Can’t

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Ann N. Amicucci Volume 4 Chapter Description Many students are frequent users of social media, and it’s important to recognize the rich rhetorical activity that happens on apps like Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok. This chapter teaches students how to take rhetorical moves they make on social media and mimic these moves in academic writing,

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A Student’s Guide to Collaborative Writing Technologies

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Matt Barton & Karl Klint Volume 2 Chapter Description Collaboration is a vital part of learning; indeed, it’s a vital part of most professional careers, but many students struggle with group projects because the process can be chaotic and the results unpleasant.  With this chapter, you can help students explore a variety of free, easy-to-use

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A Student’s Guide to Collaborative Writing Technologies

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Matt Barton & Karl Klint Volume 2 Chapter Description Collaboration is a vital part of learning; indeed, it’s a vital part of most professional careers, but many students struggle with group projects because the process can be chaotic and the results unpleasant.  With this chapter, you can help students explore a variety of free, easy-to-use

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