Digital+Environments

“We are in the midst of yet another transition as the composing process shifts from a pen and paper environment to a digital one….In essence, a revolution both in portability and in the way information is received, created, and stored has emerged.” (Stapleton). This big transition meets with students head on once they get into college. You will not write in one dimension anymore, instead you will write in two dimensions. The ability to write in the print and digital environments prepares you for any various writing tasks in the future. Employment is a good example, maybe your boss asks you to create and manage a blog. Within this guide, we will teach you that very task.

In high school teachers were subjected to limited resources when teaching writing courses. “Many of the writing teachers we work with indicate an interest in developing teaching practices that better attend to visual rhetorics and multi-media writing, but these teachers also voice the concern that such teaching is impossible because of the institutional resources currently available to them. This recognition of institutional and technological limitations suggests the need for analytical tools that might help us account for the contexts of new- media writing in ways that enable students and teachers to achieve what they can imagine in and for the composition classroom” (Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Ellen Cushman. and Jeffrey T. Grabill) Writing in high school was boring, you wrote essays and that is it. Your minds weren’t allowed to explore beyond print. With today’s technology and the sources supplied by colleges and universities such as NJIT, writing has evolved into a digital environment and can be portrayed in so many different ways.

`“Closely related is scholarship analyzing how specific interfaces potentially shape writing practices and processes; certainly, text messages, blogs, and wikis are shaping research paths related to interfaces of/for writing” (Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Ellen Cushman. and Jeffrey T. Grabill). Blogs and Wiki spaces are important digital writing genres that allow the escape to another world of writing. Your voices and opinions are heard in these specific genres. The best part of writing in digital environments is the size of your audience. Your work can be read and criticized by anyone with access to the internet. A little scary, but it is also exciting. If you are interested in writing in the digital environment then see: Sources: DeVoss, Dànielle Nicole, Ellen Cushman, and Jeffery T. Grabill. "Infrastructure and Composing: The When of New-Media Writing." //College Composition and Communication//. 57.1 (2005): 14-44. //JSTOR//. Database. 11 Dec 2012
 * The Blogs
 * The Collaborative Wiki
 * The EPortfolio

Stapleton, Paul. "Shifting cognitive processes while composing in an electronic environment: A study of L2 graduate writing." //Applied Linguistics Review.//3.1 (2012): 151-171. //Ebscohost//. Database. 11 Dec 2012.

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