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Computers and Composition

March 2016 Volume 39, Number 1

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Table of Contents

Number of articles: 7

  1. Revisualizing Composition: How First-Year Writers Use Composing Technologies

    Jessie L. Moore, Paula Rosinski & Tim Peeples, Elon University; Stacey Pigg, North Carolina State University; Martine Courant Rife, Lansing Community College, English Department; Beth Brunk-Chavez, University of Texas at El Paso; Dundee Lackey, Texas Woman's University; Suzanne Kesler Rumsey, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, Department of English and Linguistics; Robyn Tasaka, University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu, The No'eau Center for Writing, Math, and Academic Success, Library B-203; Paul Curran, Kenyon College, Institutional Research; Jeffrey T. Grabill, Michigan State University

    Reporting on survey data from 1,366 students from seven colleges and universities, this article examines the self-reported writing choices of students as they compose different kinds of texts using... More

    pp. 1-13

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  2. Men, women, and Web 2.0 writing: Gender difference in Facebook composing

    Ryan P. Shepherd

    While the nature of composition on Facebook has become a common topic of interest in composition journals, how gender identification affects Facebook use has not been studied. This study gives an... More

    pp. 14-26

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  3. Teaching grounded audiences: Burke's identification in Facebook and composition

    Samuel L. Head

    More college students than ever are participating in social networking sites such as Facebook and are engaged in composing messages to their virtual audience through these sites. Composition... More

    pp. 27-40

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  4. Framing Remix Rhetorically: Toward A Typology of Transformative Work

    Dustin W. Edwards

    Since it entered the critical lexicon in composition and rhetoric, remix has become an increasingly popular topic for scholarly work and pedagogical focus. Despite its pervasiveness, remix remains ... More

    pp. 41-54

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  5. Sites of multimodal literacy: Comparing student learning in online and face-to-face environments

    Andrew Bourelle & Tiffany Bourelle, University of New Mexico; Anna V. Knutson, University of Michigan; Stephanie Spong, University of New Mexico

    This case study explores the efficacy of online environments for the teaching and learning of multimodal literacies. In our research, we seek to explore student learning between two groups who had ... More

    pp. 55-70

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  6. Audio, Archives, and the Affordance of Listening in a Pedagogy of “Difference”

    Jean Bessette

    While attention to “affordance” has tended to focus on the forms of production that technologies encourage, this essay shifts emphasis to how different modes and mediums also afford certain kinds... More

    pp. 71-82

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  7. Weaving Relationship Webs: Tracing how IMing Practices Mediate the Trajectories of Chinese International Students

    Steven Fraiberg & Xiaowei Cui

    Over the past decade has been a dramatic increase in the international student population at U.S. universities with the total enrollments at many colleges having doubled or quadrupled within the... More

    pp. 83-103

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