Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum (ECAC)
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
Donna Reiss
Active Learning Online

Writing Specialists on Technology and New Media

"lines blur between writing and other forms of communication and between classrooms and other learning spaces"

Barbara Walvoord, “The Future of WAC.” College English 58.1 (1996): 58-79.


"Interactive language-rich technology techniques" are "the single biggest influence on ways we define writing and thinking about the curriculum and across the curriculum."

Chris Thaiss, “Reliving the History of WAC-Every Day.” Writing Across the Curriculum 3rd National Conference, Charleston, SC, 5-8 Feb. 1997. 6 Feb. 1997.


"the visual and the sensual are emerging out of verbal communication, images are given the task...of explaining words, rather than the reverse"

Bolter, Jay David. “Ekphrasis, Virtual Reality, and the Future of Writing.” The Future of the Book. Ed. Geoffrey Nunberg. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.


"foster both verbal and visual literacy so that students will discover the intimate connections and conflicts between these sorts of literacy"

Mitchell, W.J. T.  “Against Comparison: Teaching Literature and the Visual Arts.” Teaching Literature and Other Arts. Ed.Jean-Pierre Barricelli, Joseph Gibaldi, and Estella Lauter. New York: Modern Language Association, 1990.

 

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