Getting Personal : Teaching Personal Writing in the Digital Age
Laura Gray-Rosendale
Silver Medalist, 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Education (Commentary/Theory) CategoryAt a time when Twitter, Facebook, blogs, Instagram, and other social media dominate our interactions with one another and with our world, the teaching of writing also necessarily involves the employment of multimodal approaches, visual literacies, and online learning. Given this new digital landscape, how do we most effectively teach and create various forms of'personal writing'within our rhetoric and composition classes, our creative writing classes, and our community groups? Contributors to Getting Personal offer their thoughts about some of the positives and negatives of teaching and using personal writing within digital contexts. They also reveal intriguing teaching activities that they have designed to engage their students and other writers. In addition, they share some of the innovative responses they have received to these assignments. Getting Personal is about finding ways to teach and use personal writing in the digital age that can truly empower writing teachers, writing students, as well as other community members.
- Издательство:
- SUNY Press
- Год издания:
- 2018
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4384-6896-9
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4384-6897-6
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4384-6898-3