Reiss, Selfe, and Young: Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum

Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum

by Donna Reiss, Dickie Selfe, and Art Young

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This edited collection offers 24 essays that explore "electronic communication across the curriculum," an area of increasing importance in WAC and CAC research, practice, and program design. The contributors to this volume consider the implications of ECAC for academic programs, initiatives, and individual courses.

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Front Matter, Table of Contents, and List of Tables (89K)
Foreword, Cynthia L. Selfe (245K)
Introduction: The Promise of ECAC, Donna Reiss, Dickie Selfe, and Art Young (730K)

Part I. Programs: From Writing Across the Curriculum to Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum

Chapter 1: Using Computers to Expand the Role of Writing Centers, Muriel Harris (209K)
Chapter 2: Writing Across the Curriculum Encounters Asynchronous Learning Networks , Gail E. Hawisher and Michael A. Pemberton (956K)
Chapter 3: Building a Writing-Intensive Multimedia Curriculum, Mary E. Hocks and Daniele Bascelli (64K)
Chapter 4: Communication Across the Curriculum and Institutional Culture, Mike Palmquist, Kate Kiefer, and Donald E. Zimmerman (727K)
Chapter 5: UsingCreating a Community of Teachers and Tutors, Joe Essid and Dona J. Hickey (496K)
Chapter 6: From Case to Virtual Case: A Journey in Experiential Learning, Peter M. Saunders (642K)
Chapter 7: Composing Human-Computer Interfaces Across the Curriculum in Engineering Schools, Stuart A. Selber and Bill Karis (641K)
Chapter 8: InterQuest: Designing a Communication-Intensive Web-Based Course, Scott A. Chadwick and Jon Dorbolo (495K)
Chapter 9: Teacher Training: A Blueprint for Action Using the World Wide Web, Todd Taylor (324K)

Part II. Partnerships: Creating Interdisciplinary Communities

Chapter 10: Accommodation and Resistance on (the Color) Line: Black Writers Meet White Artists on the Internet, Teresa M. Redd (447K)
Chapter 11: International E-mail Debate, Linda K. Shamoon (443K)
Chapter 12: E-mail in an Interdisciplinary Context, Dennis A. Lynch (316K)
Chapter 13: Creativity, Collaboration, and Computers, Margaret Portillo and Gail Summerskill Cummins (367K)
Chapter 14: COllaboratory: MOOS, Museums, and Mentors, Margit Misangyi Watts and Michael Bertsch (370K)
Chapter 15: Weaving Guilford's Web, Michael B. Strickland and Robert M. Whitnell (468K)

Part III. Classrooms: Electronic Communication Within the Disciplines

Chapter 16: Pig Tales: Literature Inside the Pen of Electronic Writing, Katherine M. Fischer (414K)
Chapter 17: E-Journals: Writing to Learn in the Literature Classroom, Paula Gillespie (390K)
Chapter 18: E-mailing Biology: Facing the Biochallenge, Deborah M. Langsam and Kathleen Blake Yancey (374K)
Chapter 19: Computer-Supported Collaboration in an Accounting Class, Carol F. Venable and Gretchen N. Vik (474K)
Chapter 20: Electronic Tools to Redesign a Marketing Course, Randall S. Hansen (282K)
Chapter 21: Network Discussions for Teaching Western Civilization, Maryanne Felter and Daniel F. Schultz (408K)
Chapter 22: Math Learning through Electronic Journaling, Robert Wolffe (351K)
Chapter 23: Electronic Communities in Philosophy Classrooms, Gary L. Hardcastle and Valerie Gray Hardcastle (488K)
Chapter 24: Electronic Conferencing in an Interdisciplinary Humanities Course, MaryAnn Krajnik Crawford, Kathleen Geissler, M. Rini Hughes, and Jeffrey Miller (229K)
Glossary (139K)
Index (255K)
Editors (88K)
Contributors (36K)

Publication Information: Reiss, Selfe, and Young (Eds.). (2008). Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum. WAC Clearinghouse Landmark Publications in Writing Studies: http://wac.colostate.edu/books/ecac/. Originally Published in Print, 1998, by National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, Illinois.

Publication Date: May 29, 2008

Contact Information:

Donna Reiss: http://wordsworth2.net/
Email: dreiss@wordsworth2.net

Dickie Selfe: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/selfe3/
Email: selfe.3@osu.edu

Art Young: http://people.clemson.edu/~apyoung/
Email: apyoung@clemson.edu

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