Searching for
a Web Resource Guide
by Michael D. Berndt
This review marks the author's search for an appropriate
Web resource guide for his writing courses. A comparison of three textbooks,
this essay examines how each supports different approaches to the integration
of the Web into a course--from traditional to transformative. Links to
each textbook's website are attached.
Wired Style: Principles of English Usage
in the Digital Age
(Hale)
The Everyday Writer: A Brief Reference
(Lunsford and Connors)
Online! A Reference Guide to Using
Internet Sources
(Harnack and Kleppinger)
A Review of the Bedford Handbook
by Chitralekha De Duttagupta
Recognizing that students spend only a small fraction
of their time in our classrooms, this review examines a popular handbook
in light of its ability to help students learn about writing on their own,
outside of class.
The Bedford Handbook, 5th edition
(Hacker)
Print and Its
Discontents
by Myron Tuman
In his recently-released book, Purves (d. 1998)
asks the big question that concerns many teachers of writing--How is the
technology of the Web changing the nature of text and of literacy? In this
review, Myron Tuman examines Purves's attempts to answer such questions,
situating the work in a larger discourse about the present and future of
literacy, culture, and technology.
The Web of Text and the Web of God:
An Essay on the
Third Information
Transformation (Alan
Purves)
A Review of Transitions: Teaching
Writing in Computer-Supported and Traditional Classrooms
by Viktorija Todorovska
This review gives a summary and overview of complex study
of how teachers and students change the way they approach writing and the
teaching of writing when they change classrooms, some going from computer-supported
to traditional and some going from traditional to computer-supported.
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