Teaching Writing in the Twenty-First Century
- Authors: Beth L. Hewett, Tiffany Bourelle, Scott Warnock
- Pages: 436
- Published: 2021
- ISBN: 9781603295468 (Paperback)
- ISBN: 9781603295451 (Hardcover)
“Instructors at every level, no matter their fluency in digitality and comfort with technology, will gain from reading Hewett, Bourelle, and Warnock. The texts thoroughly integrate the threshold concepts of writing studies into a composition pedagogy that understands contemporary communication and values diversity, access, and inclusion.”
—Computers and Composition
Teaching Writing in the Twenty-First Century is a comprehensive introduction to writing instruction in an increasingly digital world. It provides both a theoretical background and detailed practical guidance to writing instructors faced with novel and ever-changing digital learning technologies, new approaches to access needs and usability design, increasing student diversity, and the multiliteracies of reading, alphabetic writing, and multimodal composition. A companion volume, Administering Writing Programs in the Twenty-First Century, considers the role of administrators in addressing these issues.
Covering all aspects of teaching online, various composition genres, and the technologies available to teachers, Teaching Writing in the Twenty-First Century addresses composing processes and approaches; designing and scaffolding assignments; providing response, feedback, and evaluation; communicating effectively; and supporting students. These strategic and practical ideas are prefaced by a history of the relation between composition and rhetoric and a guide to diversity, inclusion, and access. The volume ends with a chapter on envisioning the future of composition.
“We increasingly live and teach and learn in a digital world. This book will do much to encourage and support effective teaching and learning.”
—Duane Roen, Arizona State University
“At once a refresher on rhet/comp scholarship and a primer on teaching writing in all contexts. . . . This is a book that should be read by long-time, experienced teachers of writing as well as novices, and particularly by graduate students preparing to enter the world of writing studies pedagogy.”
—Online Literacies Open Resource
