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Book Review: Developing Writers: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age -...
The book is a refreshing read, written in a style which is easy to understand but has that lightness of touch which makes it possible to deal with theoretically difficult ideas without losing its...
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Brevity: the only journal devoted exclusively to concise literary nonfiction.
Fascinating resource for teachers looking to integrate so-called "nonfiction*" into their writing instruction. (CCSS)See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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Find Free Images Quickly With Compfight - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of...
"Creative Commons licensed photos are a sort of internet miracle: By providing an easily-understood syntax for attribution and permissions, they make it possible to add visual interest to blog posts,...
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Wandering through the Future (film) - Marjolijn Dijkman
April 2007. The project Wandering through the Future reinserted such science fiction films into the public sphere from which they are normally banned. Clips from seventy movies were compiled into a...
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Abraham Lincoln Would Have Tweeted » Cyborgology
"Recently, I started following a new podcast from Slate.com called Lexicon Valley. The half hour-long, weekly podcast by Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo covers a variety of topics but all of the episodes...
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DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Comic Book Markup Language: An...
"Comics, comic books, and graphic novels are increasingly the target of seriously scholarly attention in the humanities. Moreover, comic books are exceptionally complex documents, with intricate...
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Works Cited: Twit twit twit
"So there is something coy about the way that Twitter names itself after animal sounds,as if to suggest that there is something fundamentally antilinguistic about social media text. "Don't mind us," it...
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Review: Developing Writers: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age
"What does it mean to learn and develop as a writer? What is a multimodal text? How is writing different in the age of the internet and mobile phone, particularly in relation to teaching, assessing and...
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The Top 100 Creative Writing Blogs (Updated) - Best Colleges Online
With hundreds of creative writing blogs out there, these are a good place to start for writers looking for some advice or inspiration.See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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Zombie Nouns
How nominalizations can infect your writing and render it lifeless.See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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New Literacies: What are They and What Does This Mean for Writing?
What are new literacies? How do new literacies differ from old ones? How does this affect how we write and how we teach writing?See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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Learning "Stuff" and Using V for Vendetta in the Composition Classroom |...
Learning "Stuff" and Using V for Vendetta in the Composition Classroom...See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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Why Tweet? (And How To Do It)
About once a week I have this conversation: A friend says to me, “I really should get on to twitter.” She usually says it wearily, in the same tone she would use to say, “I really need to clean my...
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The Twitter Essay | Digital Pedagogy | HYBRID PEDAGOGY
Consider the tangible violence technology has wrought upon grammar. We rely on automated grammar and spell-check tools in word-processing software (so much that they’ve become a crutch). E-mail...
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writing prompts
These are some of the daily writing prompts I use in class. If you have questions, comments, or...See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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Writing Explorations | Rush the Iceberg
It is a place for my students to explore their thoughts on various topics, practice new grammar concepts, and refine previous held beliefs.See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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More Consideration of Video as Text
I have been curious about ways I can bring in the concept of “video as text” to my students other than “here’s the video” of the story we just read. That seems too passive, and with our new curriculum...
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The Nation's Report Card: Writing 2011: Executive Summary
The Nation's Report Card: Writing 2011: Executive Summary...See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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Our Summer Writing Contest: What A Response! : NPR
Three thousand and counting. That's how many of your original short stories we've received so far in our Three-Minute Fiction summer writing contest. Here are some of our favorites.See it on Scoop.it,...
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The Writing Revolution
In the coming months, the conversation about the importance of formal writing instruction and its place in a public-school curriculum—the conversation that was central to changing the culture at New...
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To DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) or to DREAM (DRop Everything And Make)
Part of Manny Vega’s mosaic mural Espiritu will be a piece that features The Trickster, a mythical creature that shows up across time and cultures. As a mosaic, Vega is afforded the ability to insert...
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Online And In The Open: Transparent Novel Writing : NPR
Silvia Hartmann is writing a novel in Google Docs so that readers can see her story appear line by line, edit by edit. Host Scott Simon talks with writer Silvia Hartmann about her progress.See it on...
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Twitter fiction: 21 authors try their hand at 140-character novels
We challenged well-known writers – from Ian Rankin and Helen Fielding to Jeffrey Archer and Jilly Cooper – to come up with a story of up to 140 characters.See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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dropping knowledge :: Table of Free Voices
dropping knowledge (droppingknowledge) is a global initiative to turn apathy into activity.See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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Incorporating an Audio Assignment into your Classroom: The PSA
So let’s say you don’t have a ton of experience incorporating audiovisual elements into your writing classroom assignments. Let’s also say that may...See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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The many stages of writing a research paper
Watch as computer scientist Timothy Weninger goes through 463 drafts of a scientific research paper.See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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Revisualizing Composition: Mapping the Writing Lives of First-Year College...
This white paper reports initial findings from a Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research Center study entitled Revisualizing Composition: Mapping the Writing Lives of First-Year College...
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Philosophy and the Poetic Imagination
Poetry can help awaken us to the richness of the language that surrounds us, even in the seeming cacophony of the digital age.See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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The Daily Routines of Famous Writers
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.See it on Scoop.it, via Developing Writers
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Two Views of Writing: Woody Allen and John McPhee
"...As I was watching it, I was reminded of an article I had just read in The New Yorker by John McPhee, who writes about how he writes in a piece called “Structure.” (I think it is part of the paid...
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