Writing in an Electronic World
A Rhetoric with Readings
Published on 1. March 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-0-321-01964-6 (ISBN)
Description
We live, work and write in an electronic, connected world. Writing in an Electronic World is the solution for writing educators who need a guide to how new technologies can best affect both writing instruction and writing communities. Designed for both new users of technology and early adopters, the book is a rigorous examination of writing and technologies that provides a thoughtful and measured pedagogy and will help students write effective prose. By combining traditional rhetorical instruction with critical assessments of new opportunities created by the Internet, Writing in an Electric World prepares students for the real experiences and demands of the evolving, literate world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
699 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-321-01964-6 (9780321019646)
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Content
(NOTE: Each chapter begins with an Introduction and concludes with Writing Projects.)I. WRITING AND TECHNOLOGY.
1. Writing in an Electronic World.
A Brief History of Writing Technologies.
Readings: The Writer a la Modem, Julian Dibbel.
Objections Noted: Word Processing, Sven Birkerts.
Technology on Campus.
Technology Profile: A Brief History of the Internet.
Technology Off Campus.
Writers Using Technology: Alastair Gamble.
Readings: The Silicon Idol, Michael Shallis.
Electonic Illusions: A Skeptic's View of Our High Tech Future, Ian Reinecke.
Informing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman.
2. The Writing Situation.
The Writing Situation.
Technology Profile: Using E-mail.
Community and the Writing Situation.
Writers Using Technology: Hans van der Wal.
Working on Your Writing Process.
Readings: from The Warrior Woman, Maxine Hong Kingston.
Why I Write, George Orwell.
Talking Aids to Death, Randy Shilts.
3. Critical Reading and Writing.
Reading: In So Many Words: How Technology Reshapes the Reading Habit, Rebecca Piirto Heath..
Reading Critically.
Reading: My Alma Mater Was Books, Malcolm X.
Technology Profile: Simple Searches on the Web.
Patterns of Writing.
Writers Using Technology: Seth I. Rich.
II. WRITING AND COMMUNITY.
4. Understanding Communities.
What Is a Community?
Technology Profile: Advanced Searches on the Web.
Readings: Birth of a Nation in Cyberspace, John C. Rude.
Citizen's Participation Through Internet, Ernest Maragall, Angels Pont, Teresa Sera, and Joan Carreras.
Electronic Democracy in the Republic of Korea, Suk-Jae Lee.
Teledemocracy, Auli Keskinen.
Language and Communities.
Writers Using Technology: Elizabeth Durack.
Research.
5. Arguing in Communities.
Reasoning and Writing.
Technology Profile: Introducing FirstSearch and Lexis-Nexis.
Planning Your Composition.
Soliciting Feedback.
Writers Using Technology: Amy Sawyer.
Readings: Virtual Community: The Heart of the WELL, Howard Rheingold.
Web of Life: Cyberhood vs. Neighborhood, Scott Russell Sanders.
Unraveling from Above: Unsolved Mysteries, The Tocqueville Files, Theda Skocpol.
III. ACADEMIC COMMUNITIES.
6. Exploring Academic Discourse.
Exploring Academic Communities.
Technology Profile: File Sharing.
Language and Academic Communities.
Readings: Great Expectations: Electronic Novellas in the Making, R.W. Burniske.
Distant Voices: Teaching and Writing in a Culture of Technology, Chris M. Anson.
Collaborative and Single-Person Authorship.
Writers Using Technology: David Silver.
Readings: Sacrificing Community for Virtual Community: Sometimes You Need to Take Time for RealTime!, Ronni T. Marshak.
The Social Effects of Technological Distancing, Ron Westrum.
7. Research in Academic Communities.
Topics or Subject, and Issues.
Technology Profile: Searching for E-mail Addresses.
Reading: Taking on Prostate Cancer, Andy Grove.
Research as Listening and Gathering.
Readings: Information for Action, Wangari Maathai.
No Smoking: The Ethical Issues, Robert Goodin.
Shall Women Go to College?, E.R. Sill.
Organizing Your Sources: Outlines and Summaries.
Writers Using Technology: Robbie Romano.
8. Composing Arguments in Academic Communities.
Taking a Stand: Where and Before Whom?
Technology Profile: File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
Strategies for Peer Response.
Reading: Learning in the Digital Economy, Don Tapscott.
Finishing the Academic Writing Project.
Writers Using Technology: Kristi Lynn Reimer.
4. LOCAL AND NATIONAL COMMUNITIES.
9. Exploring Public Discourse.
A Language for Examining Differences.
Readings: Civilize Public Dialogue and Shape a Better World, Judith Rodin.
The Argument Culture, Deborah Tannen.
Technology Profile: Web-based Newspaper Discussion Forums.
Public Forums.
Readings: A Different Mirror: To See the United States as a Muttiracial Society, Ronald Takaki.
The Overlooked Story, Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom.
Shifting Challenges: Fifty Years of Economic Change Toward Black-White Earnings Equality, Ronald P. Ferguson.
Gallup Poll: Progress in Black/White Relations, but Race Is Still an Issue, Charlotte Astor.
Writers Using Technology: Dr. Charles Lee Isbell.
10. Listening In to Local and National Communities.
Four Kinds of Forums.
Reading: New York Times Web Forum: Environment November 1997.
Reading: Tortoises Snooze Through Ward Valley Brouhaha, Pat Murkland.
Readings: Two Sides of Waste Controversy (The Sand Diego Union-Tribune).
Debate on Nuclear Disposal (The Arizona Republic).
Reading: A Troubled Time for Tortoises, Todd Wilkinson.
Technology Profile: Using Technological Factors to Evaluate Web Sites.
Places to Listen.
Writers Using Technology: Ken Scott.
11. Composing for Local and National Communities.
Finding a Forum for Public Discourse.
Writers Using Technology: Peter Bennett and Ursula Kneuper-Bennett.
The Web Site: An Extended Example.
Reading:About Turtle Trax, Ursula Keuper-Bennett and Peter Bennett.
Technology Profile: Publicizing Web Sites.
Reading: Clicking onto Webzines, Herb Brody.
V. The GLOBAL COMMUNITY.
12. Exploring Global Discourse.
Reading: The Internet Can Bring Peace of Mind, Brock N. Meeks.
The Challenge of a Global Audience.
Technology Profile: Translating Web Documents.
Readings: Preventing Culture Clash on the World Wide Web, Mark Hodges.
Across Tundra and Cultures, Entrepreneur Wires Arctic, Solange De Santis.
How Technology Changes Global Communication.
Writers Using Technology: Bruce Toombs.
Reading: Fast Forward: Our High-Speed Chase to Nowhere, Mark Kingwell.
13. Listening In to the Global Community.
Listening for Cultural Differences.
Technology Profile: Using a MOO.
Readings: Africa News Online: It Has Been Tough Going to Create a Lane for Africa on the Information Superhighway, Reed Kramer.
Cyberculture Comes to the Americas, Barbara Belejack.
Reading Across Cultures.
Readings: Censorship and the Internet: A Singapore Perspective, Peng Hwa Ang and Berlinda Nadarajan.
Sex on the Internet; When Bavaria Wrinkles Its Nose, Must the Whole World Catch a Cold? (The Economist)
The Web, the Spider and the Fly, Seydou Amadou Oumarou and Rene Lefort.
Writers Using Technology: Ashu Tiwary.
14. Composing for the Global Community.
Reading: Women's Rights Are Human Rights, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Building Community: Engaging an Audience.
Technology Profile: Building Basic Web Pages.
Formats for Global Conversations.
Reading: My Turn: The Faces of Famine, Michael Maren.
Editorial, Randal Major.
Letter to My American Friends, Marijana Kolak.
What Has Changed, Sofija Pavlovic.
Stop the Catastrophe in the Making! Radomir Masha Dikosavljevic.
Hell, Natassja Smiljanic.
Readings: Women Poets Fight for Sexual Emancipation, Cecep Syamsul Hari.
Violence and Health, Mira Shiva.
Quiz Kid, Feminist, Nun: The Remarkable Life of Juana Ines de la Cruz, Jim Tuck.
Writers Using Technology: Olivera Jokic.
Credits.
Index.
1. Writing in an Electronic World.
A Brief History of Writing Technologies.
Readings: The Writer a la Modem, Julian Dibbel.
Objections Noted: Word Processing, Sven Birkerts.
Technology on Campus.
Technology Profile: A Brief History of the Internet.
Technology Off Campus.
Writers Using Technology: Alastair Gamble.
Readings: The Silicon Idol, Michael Shallis.
Electonic Illusions: A Skeptic's View of Our High Tech Future, Ian Reinecke.
Informing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman.
2. The Writing Situation.
The Writing Situation.
Technology Profile: Using E-mail.
Community and the Writing Situation.
Writers Using Technology: Hans van der Wal.
Working on Your Writing Process.
Readings: from The Warrior Woman, Maxine Hong Kingston.
Why I Write, George Orwell.
Talking Aids to Death, Randy Shilts.
3. Critical Reading and Writing.
Reading: In So Many Words: How Technology Reshapes the Reading Habit, Rebecca Piirto Heath..
Reading Critically.
Reading: My Alma Mater Was Books, Malcolm X.
Technology Profile: Simple Searches on the Web.
Patterns of Writing.
Writers Using Technology: Seth I. Rich.
II. WRITING AND COMMUNITY.
4. Understanding Communities.
What Is a Community?
Technology Profile: Advanced Searches on the Web.
Readings: Birth of a Nation in Cyberspace, John C. Rude.
Citizen's Participation Through Internet, Ernest Maragall, Angels Pont, Teresa Sera, and Joan Carreras.
Electronic Democracy in the Republic of Korea, Suk-Jae Lee.
Teledemocracy, Auli Keskinen.
Language and Communities.
Writers Using Technology: Elizabeth Durack.
Research.
5. Arguing in Communities.
Reasoning and Writing.
Technology Profile: Introducing FirstSearch and Lexis-Nexis.
Planning Your Composition.
Soliciting Feedback.
Writers Using Technology: Amy Sawyer.
Readings: Virtual Community: The Heart of the WELL, Howard Rheingold.
Web of Life: Cyberhood vs. Neighborhood, Scott Russell Sanders.
Unraveling from Above: Unsolved Mysteries, The Tocqueville Files, Theda Skocpol.
III. ACADEMIC COMMUNITIES.
6. Exploring Academic Discourse.
Exploring Academic Communities.
Technology Profile: File Sharing.
Language and Academic Communities.
Readings: Great Expectations: Electronic Novellas in the Making, R.W. Burniske.
Distant Voices: Teaching and Writing in a Culture of Technology, Chris M. Anson.
Collaborative and Single-Person Authorship.
Writers Using Technology: David Silver.
Readings: Sacrificing Community for Virtual Community: Sometimes You Need to Take Time for RealTime!, Ronni T. Marshak.
The Social Effects of Technological Distancing, Ron Westrum.
7. Research in Academic Communities.
Topics or Subject, and Issues.
Technology Profile: Searching for E-mail Addresses.
Reading: Taking on Prostate Cancer, Andy Grove.
Research as Listening and Gathering.
Readings: Information for Action, Wangari Maathai.
No Smoking: The Ethical Issues, Robert Goodin.
Shall Women Go to College?, E.R. Sill.
Organizing Your Sources: Outlines and Summaries.
Writers Using Technology: Robbie Romano.
8. Composing Arguments in Academic Communities.
Taking a Stand: Where and Before Whom?
Technology Profile: File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
Strategies for Peer Response.
Reading: Learning in the Digital Economy, Don Tapscott.
Finishing the Academic Writing Project.
Writers Using Technology: Kristi Lynn Reimer.
4. LOCAL AND NATIONAL COMMUNITIES.
9. Exploring Public Discourse.
A Language for Examining Differences.
Readings: Civilize Public Dialogue and Shape a Better World, Judith Rodin.
The Argument Culture, Deborah Tannen.
Technology Profile: Web-based Newspaper Discussion Forums.
Public Forums.
Readings: A Different Mirror: To See the United States as a Muttiracial Society, Ronald Takaki.
The Overlooked Story, Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom.
Shifting Challenges: Fifty Years of Economic Change Toward Black-White Earnings Equality, Ronald P. Ferguson.
Gallup Poll: Progress in Black/White Relations, but Race Is Still an Issue, Charlotte Astor.
Writers Using Technology: Dr. Charles Lee Isbell.
10. Listening In to Local and National Communities.
Four Kinds of Forums.
Reading: New York Times Web Forum: Environment November 1997.
Reading: Tortoises Snooze Through Ward Valley Brouhaha, Pat Murkland.
Readings: Two Sides of Waste Controversy (The Sand Diego Union-Tribune).
Debate on Nuclear Disposal (The Arizona Republic).
Reading: A Troubled Time for Tortoises, Todd Wilkinson.
Technology Profile: Using Technological Factors to Evaluate Web Sites.
Places to Listen.
Writers Using Technology: Ken Scott.
11. Composing for Local and National Communities.
Finding a Forum for Public Discourse.
Writers Using Technology: Peter Bennett and Ursula Kneuper-Bennett.
The Web Site: An Extended Example.
Reading:About Turtle Trax, Ursula Keuper-Bennett and Peter Bennett.
Technology Profile: Publicizing Web Sites.
Reading: Clicking onto Webzines, Herb Brody.
V. The GLOBAL COMMUNITY.
12. Exploring Global Discourse.
Reading: The Internet Can Bring Peace of Mind, Brock N. Meeks.
The Challenge of a Global Audience.
Technology Profile: Translating Web Documents.
Readings: Preventing Culture Clash on the World Wide Web, Mark Hodges.
Across Tundra and Cultures, Entrepreneur Wires Arctic, Solange De Santis.
How Technology Changes Global Communication.
Writers Using Technology: Bruce Toombs.
Reading: Fast Forward: Our High-Speed Chase to Nowhere, Mark Kingwell.
13. Listening In to the Global Community.
Listening for Cultural Differences.
Technology Profile: Using a MOO.
Readings: Africa News Online: It Has Been Tough Going to Create a Lane for Africa on the Information Superhighway, Reed Kramer.
Cyberculture Comes to the Americas, Barbara Belejack.
Reading Across Cultures.
Readings: Censorship and the Internet: A Singapore Perspective, Peng Hwa Ang and Berlinda Nadarajan.
Sex on the Internet; When Bavaria Wrinkles Its Nose, Must the Whole World Catch a Cold? (The Economist)
The Web, the Spider and the Fly, Seydou Amadou Oumarou and Rene Lefort.
Writers Using Technology: Ashu Tiwary.
14. Composing for the Global Community.
Reading: Women's Rights Are Human Rights, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Building Community: Engaging an Audience.
Technology Profile: Building Basic Web Pages.
Formats for Global Conversations.
Reading: My Turn: The Faces of Famine, Michael Maren.
Editorial, Randal Major.
Letter to My American Friends, Marijana Kolak.
What Has Changed, Sofija Pavlovic.
Stop the Catastrophe in the Making! Radomir Masha Dikosavljevic.
Hell, Natassja Smiljanic.
Readings: Women Poets Fight for Sexual Emancipation, Cecep Syamsul Hari.
Violence and Health, Mira Shiva.
Quiz Kid, Feminist, Nun: The Remarkable Life of Juana Ines de la Cruz, Jim Tuck.
Writers Using Technology: Olivera Jokic.
Credits.
Index.