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    Rhetorical Dynamics across Networked Publics

    by Carl Whithaus ...
    Series series Composition, Literacy, and Culture
    Swarms, Viral Writing, and the Local examines the social and rhetorical dynamics around emerging writing technologies. Carl Whithaus argues that these dynamics work across networked publics as patterns of behavior and ways of interacting through and with multimodal texts. This rhetorical analysis of the production and reception of born-digital rhetoric shows the ongoing and evolving impacts of ... Read more

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  • Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes Testing

    by Carl Whithaus ...
    This book takes on a daunting task: How do writing teachers continue to work toward preparing students for academic and real-world communication situations, while faced with the increasing use of standardized high-stakes testing? Teachers need both the technical ability to deal with this reality and the ideological means to critique the information technologies and assessment methods that are ... Read more

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  • Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres

    Edited by Tracey Bowen, Carl Whithaus ...
    Series Book 163 - Composition, Literacy, and Culture
    A student's avatar navigates a virtual world and communicates the desires, emotions, and fears of its creator. Yet, how can her writing instructor interpret this form of meaningmaking?Today, multiple modes of communication and information technology are challenging pedagogies in composition and across the disciplines. Writing instructors grapple with incorporating new forms into their curriculums ... Read more

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  • Writing Across Distances and Disciplines

    Research and Pedagogy in Distributed Learning

    Writing Across Distances and Disciplines addresses questions that cross borders between onsite, hybrid, and distributed learning environments, between higher education and the workplace, and between distance education and composition pedagogy. This groundbreaking volume raises critical issues, clarifies key terms, reviews history and theory, analyzes current research, reconsiders pedagogy, ... Read more

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  • Teaching Graphic Design

    Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Graduate and Undergraduate Programs

    by Steven Heller ...
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    by Mark Deuze ...
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  • The Internet of Things

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    by Paul Oliver ...
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