Paperless Writing in World Literature I: Can Students See the Forest without Writing on the Trees?

Authors

  • Christine Hoffmann University of Arkansas

Keywords:

wikis, rhetoric, composition, world literature

Abstract

Electronic writing offers the opportunity to be creative, impromptu, personal, even improper—unstructured, in other words—while academic writing traps them, catches them up in, an impersonal, uncreative, unimaginative, structured, mechanical—and perhaps even ultimately noncommunicative—experience.

Author Biography

Christine Hoffmann, University of Arkansas

Christine Hoffmann is a fourth-year PhD candidate at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. Her research interests include rhetorical theory and composition, Renaissance English literature, and media studies. She is currently at work on her dissertation, which will examine the potential connections between, and the pedagogical effects of, the various forms of social networking active in early modern England and the postmodern West.

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