Status Update to Term Paper: Social Network Sites as a Medium for Collaboration
Abstract
As teachers of writing, we structure our classes to focus on the process method, emphasizing the many stages that all writers must go through as they compose. With the understanding that writing is a social process, too, instructors can create stronger classroom communities, and stronger writers, through the incorporation of digital technologies. This paper traces the use of a blog in a freshman composition class, and then discusses the possible benefits of using social network site technologies to further enhance student writing abilities. Social network sites may be an even better tool for showing students writing's inherent social nature.Downloads
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