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Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia
Robert E. Cummings
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Description for Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia
Hardcover. Focusing on the controversial website Wikipedia, the author explores the challenges confronting teachers of college writing in the electronic and networked writing environments their students use every day. Num Pages: 216 pages, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: CJCW; JNM; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 930.
Focusing largely on the controversial website Wikipedia, the author explores the challenges confronting teachers of college writing in the increasingly electronic and networked writing environments their students use every day. Rather than praising or condemning that site for its role as an encyclopedia, Cummings instead sees it as a site for online collaboration between writers and a way to garner audience for student writing.Applying an understanding of Commons-Based Peer Production theory, as developed by Yochai Benkler, this text is arranged around five key propositions: Commons-Based Peer Production is a novel economic phenomenon which informs our current teaching model and describes ... Read more
Focusing largely on the controversial website Wikipedia, the author explores the challenges confronting teachers of college writing in the increasingly electronic and networked writing environments their students use every day. Rather than praising or condemning that site for its role as an encyclopedia, Cummings instead sees it as a site for online collaboration between writers and a way to garner audience for student writing.Applying an understanding of Commons-Based Peer Production theory, as developed by Yochai Benkler, this text is arranged around five key propositions: Commons-Based Peer Production is a novel economic phenomenon which informs our current teaching model and describes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826516152
SKU
V9780826516152
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About Robert E. Cummings
Robert E. Cummings is Director of First-year Composition and QEP Program Specialist for Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a Ph.D. in English in 2006. While there he participated in the development of , an open source networked teaching tool for composition, and helped to create the University's first widely adopted e-portfolio ... Read more
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