ENGL 821: Roundtable Handout

Somewhere in the Middle:

The Gap Between a Digital Rhetorical Theory and Practical Application

 

NCTE Framework for 21st Century Literacies

Requirementsfor successful participation in the global society:

1. Developing proficiency and fluency with the tools of technology;
2. Building intentional, cross-cultural connections and relationships with others so to pose and solve problems collaboratively and strengthen independent thought;
3.  Designing and sharing information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes;
4.  Managing, analyzing, and synthesizing multiple streams of simultaneous information;
5. Creating, critiquing, analyzing, and evaluating multimedia texts; and
6. Attending to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments. 

WPA Learning Outcomes for First Year Writing 

Electronic Environments 

1. Use electronic environments for drafting, reviewing, revising, editing, and sharing texts;
2. Locate, evaluate, organize, and use research material collected from electronic sources, including scholarly library databases; other official databases (e.g., federal government databases); and informal electronic networks and internet sources; and
3. Understand and exploit the differences in the rhetorical strategies and in the affordances available for both print and electronic composing processes and texts.

References

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Clark, J.E. (2010). The digital imperative: Making a case for a 21^st-century pedagogy. Computers 
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Porter, J. E. (2009). Recovering delivery for digital rhetoric. Computers and composition, 26, 

          207-224. doi: 10.1016/j.compcom.2009.09.004

Prior, P. et al. (2007). Re-situating and re-mediating the canons: A cultural-historical remapping of
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Rice, J.E. (Dec. 2008). Rhetoric’s mechanics: Retooling the equipment of writing production.
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Zappen, J.P. (2005). Digital rhetoric: Toward an integrated theory. Technical Communication 
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