Teaching English in the Two-Year College Sep 2000

Using the Internet to Teach Composition

Patrick Sullivan

Abstract

Describes the design of a standard first-year composition class in which the author used online discussion forums. Discusses how these design choices helped create a dynamic community of readers, writers, and learners in a writing classroom. Discusses pedagogical goals, and course design. Discusses several reasons why this approach works so well, and offers some cautionary notes.

Journal
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Published
2000-09-01
DOI
10.58680/tetyc20001918
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Closed
Topics
first-year composition writing pedagogy curriculum design multimodality multilingual writers

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