Writing Across Distances and Disciplines: Research and by Joyce Magnotto Neff

By Joyce Magnotto Neff

Writing throughout Distances and Disciplines addresses questions that pass borders among onsite, hybrid, and disbursed studying environments, among greater schooling and the place of work, and among distance schooling and composition pedagogy. This groundbreaking quantity increases serious matters, clarifies key words, studies historical past and concept, analyzes present examine, reconsiders pedagogy, explores particular purposes of WAC and WID in allotted environments, and considers what enterprise and schooling may well educate each other approximately writing and studying. Exploring the intersection of writing around the curriculum, composition stories, and distance studying , it offers an in-depth examine problems with value to scholars, college, and directors concerning the technological way forward for writing and studying in better schooling.

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For example, Joseph C. Blumenthal’s (1960) textbook, English 2600, a kind of “proto”-distributed learning technology, demonstrates an early attempt to use techniques from behavioral science to modify course instruction in English composition to meet the needs of individual learners. Using English 2600, students would complete sentences or fill in grammatical terms in one box on one page and then turn immediately to the next page where they could see the answer. ” The student would fill in the two missing words and immediately turn the page and look at the inside margin where the correct answer “but, or” is written.

For example, faculty who have participated in WAC workshops can use their knowledge of cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary discourses to negotiate with the team of stakeholders in the move toward pedagogically sound delivery decisions. They can use rhetorical principles when designing Web sites and assignments for students who are studying from a distance. They can value the expertise—whether technological or disciplinary—that their distance students bring to a course and can call on those varied backgrounds when implementing writing workshops, peer reviews, and collaborative projects.

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