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Oct 8 2008, 1:29 PM EDT
You say "students will want to use existing habits used in MySpace or other arenas." This is an important point on several levels. In The teaching and learning of web genres in first-year composition," Edwards and McKee (2005) call this "insider knowledge...knowledge about how discourse works on the world Wide Web" (p. 206).
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Oct 8 2008, 1:46 PM EDT
Sorry, I "locked" myself out of my previous message. Anyway, waht Edwards and McKee say is that this "insider knowledge" shapes how students conceptualize/ write their webpages in ways that we often don't anticipate, and that may greatly differ from what we expect them to do because our own "insider knowledge" comes from different sources (inlcuding different web pages). In fact, they find that in some cases, students's web pages reflected knowledge of web discourses which they (the instructors) were not as proficient in.
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Oct 8 2008, 2:02 PM EDT
One more thought: Edwards and Mckee (2005) also advocate that we found out about our students' prior experiences with web pages, so we can examine with them how these are infulencing the rhetorical choices they are making in designing web pages in our classes (p. 212). Edwards, M. & McKee, H. (2005). The teaching and learning of web genres in first-year composition. In A. Herrington & C. Moran (Eds.) Genre across the curriculum (pp. 196-218). Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. Do you find this valuable? |
