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Metabolizing Capital: Writing, Information, And The Biophysical World, Christian J. Pulver
Metabolizing Capital: Writing, Information, And The Biophysical World, Christian J. Pulver
Doctoral Dissertations
While the discipline of rhetoric and composition has looked at a variety of topics related to the materiality of writing, the majority of materialist approaches limit their scope to local, situated writing practices. However, with the spread of digital media and the establishment of a global, networked infrastructure for communication and inscription, the abundant textuality that has emerged in the early 21st century demands that we develop more rigorous materialist approaches to the study and teaching of writing. This growing textual environment has been called, in popular and academic discourse, Web 2.0—a more “social Web” than its early …
The Role Of Online Reading And Writing In The Literacy Practices Of First-Year Writing Students, Casey Burton Soto
The Role Of Online Reading And Writing In The Literacy Practices Of First-Year Writing Students, Casey Burton Soto
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation examines the online reading and writing practices of four first-year college students. Through case studies of these four focal participants, I explore the various roles online reading and writing played in their lives during their first year of college. My work draws on participants’ own descriptions of and reflections on their Internet use for academic as well as social and recreational purposes in order to examine what motivated the ways they used the Internet to read and write and the connections they both saw and did not see among their uses of the Internet for various purposes. The …