Engaging 21st century writers with social media /

This book presents the latest research on the integration of social media platforms into academic writing classes, focusing on how such technology encourages writing and enables students to grasp basic composition skills in classroom settings.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bryant, Kendra N., 1979- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pennsylvania : Information Science Reference, [2017]
Series:Advances in higher education and professional development (AHEPD) book series.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Section 1. Blogging in the writing classroom
  • Networked digital spaces : Twitter in the composition classroom / Stephanie Phillips, University of South Florida, USA
  • Blog love : blogging (and microblogging) communities as writing classroom companions / Clarissa J. Walker, University of Rhode Island, USA
  • Using Twitter to scaffold English composition / Brian Harrell, University of Akron, USA
  • From expository blog to engaged e-portfolio : a student-centered pedagogy in process / Jill Darling, University of Michigan, USA
  • Section 2. Exploring multi-digital media in the writing classroom
  • This is the remix : remediating pedagogy practices / Shannon Butts, University of Florida, USA
  • Social media and the rhetorical situation : finding common ground between students' lives and writing courses / Katherine Fredlund, Indiana State University, USA
  • Reblogging as writing : the role of Tumblr in the writing classroom / Meg McGuire, University of Delaware, USA
  • Section 3. Theorizing about social media networks in the writing classroom
  • Socializing composition : entering the conversation of SNS in composition / Ken Hayes, Oklahoma State University, USA
  • Creating meaning for millennials : Bakhtin, Rosenblatt, and the use of social media in the composition classroom / Erin Trauth, University of South Florida, USA
  • Slacktivism, supervision, and #selfies: illuminating social media composition through reception theory / Elisabeth Buck, Ball State University, USA
  • The blogging method : improving traditional student writing practices / Christine Fiore, USA
  • Section 4. Integrating social media as professional development in the writing classroom
  • Teaching casual writing for professional success with Twitter: digital small talk and the new textese / Amy Rubens, Radford University, USA
  • Curating the public self : helping millennial students present an authentic, professional persona via LinkedIn / Erin Trauth, University of South Florida, USA
  • #Wordup! : student responses to social media in the technical writing classroom / Kendra N. Bryant, Florida A&M University, USA
  • Re-envisioning wikis in the writing classroom
  • Using Wikipedia to teach written health communication / Melissa Vosen Callens, North Dakota State University, USA
  • Designing a wiki-based course for enhancing the practice of writing skills in the 21st century : moving from theoretical grounding into practical knowledge / Ahmed Al Khateeb, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia.