کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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347787 | 618064 | 2013 | 13 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
Using the ecological theories of writing proposed by Marilyn Cooper's “The Ecology of Writing” (1986) and Margaret Syverson's The Wealth of Reality: An Ecology of Composition (1999), this article describes a multi-step assignment sequence designed to engage online first year composition students across the ecological breadth of their writing and learning environments. The goal of the project is twofold: enriching students’ writing processes with a sophisticated understanding of the social situatedness of knowledge and rhetoric, we can simultaneously create high-functioning learning communities in an otherwise disembodied online learning space, not by upgrading our technological tools but by pedagogically guiding learners toward ecological and productively collaborative interactions with one another.
► Online composition technology often presents writing as a disembodied and isolated activity.
► Composition theory posits that writing is complexly social, even ecological, and should be taught thus.
► Composition's best practices have long included productive intellectual collaboration.
► We present an assignment sequence for an online class that fosters ecological collaboration.
Journal: Computers and Composition - Volume 30, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 24–36