Mission Statement:

 
  As digital learning gains prominence in the university, research and writing about it becomes more numerous. The Reviews section will report upon a variety of materials, text documents, hypertext, software, course portals, etc., that influence, discuss, and record trends in digital instruction and pose questions for future growth of digital composition teaching and learning.

Section Editor -- Erin Dietel-McLaughlin

 
 


 
Spring 2010
bullet Lingua Fracta: Toward a Rhetoric of New Media by Collin Gifford Brooke
Reviewed by Kerri Hauman (Bowling Green State University)
bullet The Socially Networked Classroom by William Kist
Reviewed by Luke Rodesiler (University of Florida)
bullet Technological Ecologies and Sustainability edited by Dànielle DeVoss, Heidi McKee, and Richard Selfe
Reviewed by Alison Witte (Bowling Green State University)
bullet Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom edited by Matt Barton and Robert Cummings
reviewed by Jeff Kirchoff (Bowling Green State University)
   
 
Fall 2009, Special Issue:
Composition in the Freeware Age
bullet Audacity, reviewed by Ethan T. Jordan (Michigan Technological University
bullet Audacity, reviewed by Casey J. Rudkin (Michigan Technological University
bullet Citation Sites: Son of Citation Machine, Citation Builder, and KnightCite, reviewed by David Ramsey (Miami University)
bullet del.icio.us, reviewed by Marc Santos (Purdue University)
bullet Free Software Tools: FreeMind, LimeSurvey, NeoOffice, Pidgin, reviewed by J. Tirrell (Purdue University)
bullet Handbrake, reviewed by Ethan T. Jordan (Michigan Technological University)
bullet Miro Vodcast Player, reviewed by Kevin Hodur (Michigan Technological University)
bullet Moodle, reviewed by Dana Lynn Driscoll (Purdue University)
bullet Open Office, reviewed by Joshua Welsh (University of Minnesota)
bullet VLC Media Player, reviewed by Ethan T. Jordan (Michigan Technological University)
bullet Wink, reviewed by Richard Rabil Jr. (Texas Tech University)
   
 
Spring 2009
bullet The Educational Potential of E-Portfolios: Supporting Personal Development and Reflective Learning by Lorraine Stefani, Robin Mason, and Chris Pegler
Reviewed by Brittany Cottrill (Bowling Green State University)
bullet Digital Culture, Play, and Identity: A World of Warcraft Reader eds. H. Corneliussen and J. Walker Rettberg
Reviewed by Jennifer Kavetsky (University of California, Riverside)
bullet Using Blogs to Enhance Literacy: The Next Powerful Step in 21st-Century Learning by Diane Penrod
Reviewed by Hsaiopoing Wu (University of Texas, San Antonio)
   
 
Spring 2008
bullet Multiliteracies for a Digital Age by Stuart Selber
Reviewed by Toby Coley (Bowling Green State University)
bullet Delivering College Composition: The Fifth Canon Ed. Kathleen Blake Yancey
Reviewed by Erin Dietel-McLaughlin (Bowling Green State University)
bullet Virtual Peer Review: Teaching and Learning about Writing in Online Environments by Lee Ann Kastman Breuch Reviewed by Alex Chege (Bowling Green State University)
bullet Writing in a Visual Age by Lee Odell and Susan Katz
Reviewed by students in English 490 Web Writing (University of Findlay)
   
 
Fall 2007, Special Issue: Online Research
bullet A 'New Way to See' Students as Researchers and Writers, a review of i-cite and i-claim Reviewed by James Purdy (Bloomsburg University)
   
 
Spring 2007
Digital Youth: Emerging Literacies on the World Wide Web by Jonathan Alexander.
Reviewed by Meredith Graupner (Bowling Green State University)
   
Integrating Hypertextual Subjects: Computers, Composition, and Academic Labor by Robert Samuels Reviewed by Jen Almjeld (Bowling Green State University)
   
Designing Writing: A Practical Guide by Mike Palmquist
Reviewed by Sue Webb (Michigan State University)
   
Spring 2006
Technology and English Studies: Innovative Professional Paths Edited by James Inman and Beth L. Hewett
Reviewed by James Schirmer (Bowling Green State University)
   
Podcasts, Vodcasts, and ProfCast
Reviewed by Paul Cesarini (Bowling Green State University)
   
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
Reviewed by Adam Ellwanger (University of South Carolina)
   
Radical Feminism, Writing, and Critical Agency: From Manifesto to Modem by Jacqueline Rhodes
Reviewed by J. A. Rice (University of Florida)

Fall 2005
Literacy in the New Media Age by Gunther Kress
Reviewed by Michael Charlton (University of Oklahoma)
   
Composition in Convergence: The Impact of New Media on Writing Assessment by Diane Penrod
Reviewed by Eric Stalions (Bowling Green State University)

Spring 2005
Image, Inquiry, and Transformative Practice: Engaging Learners in Creative and Critical Inquiry through Visual Representation Edited by Lynn Sanders-Bustle
Reviewed by Robin Roots (Michigan State University)
   
Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition by Anne Wysocki, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Geoffrey Sirc
Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Monske (Louisiana Tech University)
 

Fall 2004

Into the Blogosphere: A web anthology edited by Laura Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevec, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman

  Reviewed by Lanette Cadle (Bowling Green State University)
   
Picturing Texts by Lester Faigley, Diana George, Anna Palchik, and Cynthia Selfe
Reviewed by Kendra L. Matko (Michigan State University)

Spring 2004

The Flickering Mind: The False Promise of Technology in the Classroom by Todd Oppenheimer
Reviewed by Steven D. Krause (Eastern Michigan University)

Fall 2003

Teaching Writing with Computers: An Introduction by Pamela Takayoshi and Brian Huot

  Reviewed by Joe Wilferth (Univ. of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
   
 A Monocultural Alternative: The OpenCD
Reviewed by Paul Cesarini (Bowling Green State University)

Spring 2003

Internet Invention: From Literacy to Electracy by Gregory L. Ulmer
Reviewed by Julie Kearney (Bowling Green State Univ.)

   

 
     


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