The WAC Clearinghouse
supporting scholarly exchange about communication across the disciplines
supporting scholarly exchange about communication across the disciplines
by Donna Reiss, Dickie Selfe, and Art Young
Digitized by the Colorado State University Libraries
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.
Publication Information: Reiss, Selfe, and Young (Eds.). (2008). Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum. WAC Clearinghouse Landmark Publications in Writing Studies: https://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' Home Page: http://wordsworth2.net/
Donna Reiss' Email: dreiss@wordsworth2.net
Dickie Selfe's Home Page: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/selfe3/
Dickie Selfe's Email: selfe.3@osu.edu
Art Young's Home Page: http://people.clemson.edu/~apyoung/
Art Young's Email: apyoung@clemson.edu
Landmark Publications in Writing Studies
Series Editor: Mike Palmquist, Colorado State University
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Front Matter, Table of Contents, and List of Tables
Foreword, Cynthia L. Selfe
Introduction: The Promise of ECAC, Donna Reiss, Dickie Selfe, and Art Young
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
Chapter 2: Writing Across the Curriculum Encounters Asynchronous Learning Networks , Gail E. Hawisher and Michael A. Pemberton
Chapter 3: Building a Writing-Intensive Multimedia Curriculum, Mary E. Hocks and Daniele Bascelli
Chapter 4: Communication Across the Curriculum and Institutional Culture, Mike Palmquist, Kate Kiefer, and Donald E. Zimmerman
Chapter 5: UsingCreating a Community of Teachers and Tutors, Joe Essid and Dona J. Hickey
Chapter 6: From Case to Virtual Case: A Journey in Experiential Learning, Peter M. Saunders
Chapter 7: Composing Human-Computer Interfaces Across the Curriculum in Engineering Schools, Stuart A. Selber and Bill Karis
Chapter 8: InterQuest: Designing a Communication-Intensive Web-Based Course, Scott A. Chadwick and Jon Dorbolo
Chapter 9: Teacher Training: A Blueprint for Action Using the World Wide Web, Todd Taylor
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
Chapter 11: International E-mail Debate, Linda K. Shamoon
Chapter 12: E-mail in an Interdisciplinary Context, Dennis A. Lynch
Chapter 13: Creativity, Collaboration, and Computers, Margaret Portillo and Gail Summerskill Cummins
Chapter 14: COllaboratory: MOOS, Museums, and Mentors, Margit Misangyi Watts and Michael Bertsch
Chapter 15: Weaving Guilford's Web, Michael B. Strickland and Robert M. Whitnell
Part III. Classrooms: Electronic Communication Within the Disciplines
Chapter 16: Pig Tales: Literature Inside the Pen of Electronic Writing, Katherine M. Fischer
Chapter 17: E-Journals: Writing to Learn in the Literature Classroom, Paula Gillespie
Chapter 18: E-mailing Biology: Facing the Biochallenge, Deborah M. Langsam and Kathleen Blake Yancey
Chapter 19: Computer-Supported Collaboration in an Accounting Class, Carol F. Venable and Gretchen N. Vik
Chapter 20: Electronic Tools to Redesign a Marketing Course, Randall S. Hansen
Chapter 21: Network Discussions for Teaching Western Civilization, Maryanne Felter and Daniel F. Schultz
Chapter 22: Math Learning through Electronic Journaling, Robert Wolffe
Chapter 23: Electronic Communities in Philosophy Classrooms, Gary L. Hardcastle and Valerie Gray Hardcastle
Chapter 24: Electronic Conferencing in an Interdisciplinary Humanities Course, MaryAnn Krajnik Crawford, Kathleen Geissler, M. Rini Hughes, and Jeffrey Miller