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Taking Flight with OWLS
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Taking Flight With OWLs examines computer technology use in writing centers. Its purpose is to move beyond anecdotal evidence for implementing computer technology in writing centers, presenting carefully considered studies that theorize the move to computer technology and examine technology use in practice.
Writing centers occupy a dynamic position at the crossroads of computers and composition, distance education, and composition theory, pulling ideas, theories, and pedagogies from each. Their continuing evolution necessarily involves increasing use of computer technology. The move to computer technology so far has occurred so rapidly that writing center staff and administration have not yet had much time or opportunity to study how and when to infuse it into their programs. The need for this collection is evident: Writing center practitioners have long discussed their roles in relation to their supporting institutions; now they are challenged to explore--even reinvent--their roles as computer technologies transform centers and institutions. In exploring varied stages of technology-infusion through field-based accounts, this volume offers readers an important and unique resource.
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An important topic about which too little has been written....This book is desperately needed....It is very useful to have all these articles in one volume.
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Taking Flight with OWLS
Table of Contents
Preface-The Hatching of Taking Flight with OWLs: Promise and Possibilities (by James A. Inman and Donna N. Sewell)
Introduction-Reeling in the Horizon: OWLs and Perspective in Writing Center Work (by Donna N. Sewell and James A. Inman)
Chapter 1--The Spotted OWL: Diversity and Controversy Over Online Writing Labs (by Mark Shadle)
Chapter 2--OWLs in Theory and Practice: A Director s Perspective (by Lady Falls Brown)
Chapter 3--Learning From Students in Networked Writing Labs: A View From Asia (by Andy Curtis and Tim Roskams)
Chapter 4--The Culture of Technology in the Writing Center: Reinvigorating the Theory-Practice Debate (by Randall L. Beebe and Mary J. Bonevelle)
Chapter 5--Theories Before Practice: Proposing Computers for Writing Centers (by Denise Weeks)
Chapter 6--Writing in the Electronic Realm: Incorporating a New Medium Into the Work of a Writing Center (by Sharon Thomas, Mark Hara, and Danielle DeVoss)
Chapter 7--Emerging (Web) Sites for Writing Centers: Practicality, Usage, and Multiple Voices Under Construction (by Shawn Fullmer, Brad E. Lucas, and Michael Colpo)
Chapter 8--Cyberspace and Sofas: Dialogic Spaces and the Making of an Online Writing Lab (by Eric Miraglia and Joel Norris)
Chapter 9--Advice to the Linelorn: Crossing State Borders and the Politics of Cyberspace (by Jennifer Jordan-Henley and Barry M. Maid)
Chapter 10--The Asynchronous, Online Writing Session: A Two-Way Stab in the Dark? (By Joanna Castner)
Chapter 11--The Anxieties of Distance: Online Tutors Reflect (by David A. Carlson and Eileen Apperson-Williams)
Chapter 12--E-mail Tutoring and Apprehensive Writers: What Research Tells Us (by Mark Mabrito)
Chapter 13--Synchronous Internet Tutoring: Bridging the Gap in Distance Education (by Jamie Thurber)
Chapter 14--The Real(time) World: Synchronous Communications in the Online Writing Center (by Jake Shewmake and Jason Lambert)
Chapter 15--Putting the OO in MOO: Cybertutors Leading Writers in Environmental Interaction (by Joel English)
Chapter 16--Ethics, Plugged and Unplugged: The Pedagogy of Disorderly Conduct (by Jane Love)
Chapter 17--Making Up Tomorrow s Agenda and Shopping Lists Today: Preparing for Future Technologies in Writing Centers (by Muriel Harris)
Chapter 18--Centering in the Distance: Writing Centers, Inquiry, and Technology (by Gail Cummins)
Chapter 19--The Near and Distant Futures of OWL and the Writing Center (by Barbara Monroe, Rebecca Rickly, William Condon, and Wayne Butler)
Chapter 20--How Many Technoprovocateurs Does It Take To Create Interversity? (By Eric Crump)
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