Writing in Online Courses

Phoebe Jackson is professor of English at William Paterson University. She has published work in composition studies and on American women writers including Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Carolyn Chute, Elizabeth Strout, and Harriette Simpson Arnow. With Emily Isaacs, she co-edited the book, Public Works: Student Writing as Public Text.Christopher Weaver is an Associate Professor of English and the Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at William Paterson University. Dr. Weaver writes about composition theory and pedagogy. He is the co-editor of The Theory and Practice of Grading Writing which was chosen as the outstanding book of the year in the field of education by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.

• Introduction: Why Do You Teach OnlinePart I: Technology and the Writing Practice1. Past to the Future: Computers and Community in the First Year Writing Classroom2. "She Really Took the Time": Students' Opinions of Screen-Capture Response to Their Writing in Online Courses3. Shifting Again: Electronic Writing and Recorded Speech in Online Courses4. Revising the Defaults: Online FYC Courses as Sites of Heterogeneous Disciplinary WorkPart II: Negotiating Identity Online5. Creating and Reflecting on Professional Identities in Online Business Writing Courses6. Free to Write, Safe to Claim: The Importance of Writing in Online Sociology Courses in Transforming Disposition7. Facework and the Negotiation of Identity in Online Class DiscussionsPart III: Learning Academic Discourse Online8. The Reading-Writing Connection: Engaging the Literary Text Online9. Getting Down to Earth: Scientific Inquiry and Online Writing for Non-Science Students10. Shifting Perspectives about Teaching Writing Online: A Conceptual Framework Approach for Transfer11. Hybrid Spaces and Writing Places: Ecoliteracy, Ecocomposition, and Ecological Self