Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition

Wysocki, Anne

ISBN 10: 0874215757 / ISBN 13: 9780874215755

Published by Utah State University Press, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874215757
• ISBN 13: 9780874215755
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 21 ounces

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Synopsis

As new media mature, the changes they bring to writing in college are many and suggest implications not only for the tools of writing, but also for the contexts, personae, and conventions of writing. An especially visible change has been the increase of visual elements-from typographic flexibility to the easy use and manipulation of color and images. Another would be in the scenes of writing-web sites, presentation "slides," email, online conferencing and coursework, even help files, all reflect non-traditional venues that new media have brought to writing. By one logic, we must reconsider traditional views even of what counts as writing; a database, for example, could be a new form of written work.

The authors of Writing New Media bring these ideas and the changes they imply for writing instruction to the audience of rhetoric/composition scholars. Their aim is to expand the college writing teacher's understanding of new media and to help teachers prepare students to write effectively with new media beyond the classroom. Each chapter in the volume includes a lengthy discussion of rhetorical and technological background, and then follows with classroom-tested assignments from the authors' own teaching.

About the Author

Anne Frances Wysocki is an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Johndan Johnson-Eilola is professor of communication and media at Clarkson University. He is the author of Datacloud, coauthor of Writing New Media, and coeditor, with Stuart A. Selber, of Central Works in Technical Communication.

Cynthia L. Selfe is Humanities Distinguished Professor in English at the Ohio State University. She is the first woman and the first English teacher ever to receive the EDUCOM Medal for innovative computer use in higher education. She has authored or edited a number of works on digital technology, both alone and in collaboration with colleagues.

Geoffrey M. Sirc is professor of English at the University of Minnesota.