We live, work and write in an electronic, connected world. Writing in an Electronic World is the solution for writing educators who need a guide to how new technologies can best affect both writing instruction and writing communities. Designed for both new users of technology and early adopters, the book is a rigorous examination of writing and technologies that provides a thoughtful and measured pedagogy and will help students write effective prose. By combining traditional rhetorical instruction with critical assessments of new opportunities created by the Internet, Writing in an Electric World prepares students for the real experiences and demands of the evolving, literate world.

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• Treatment of Academic Writing: Classic rhetorical tools in a computer age context are combined with treatment of exposition, argumentation and personal writing to provide a balanced, accurate reflection of how writing is actually done.
• Connection of Writing to Community: From the academic community, to the local/national communities and culminating in a discussion of the global community, this text provides a bold, progressive means for examining participation in public discourse at different levels. It demonstrates how an increasingly wired world allows students to participate in these communities, while providing step-by-step guidelines for analysis, research, and writing as students approach each new community/writing situation.
• Writers Using Technology: Engaging and informal literacy narratives written by students and young professionals who have experience writing with technology in their personal lives.
• Technology Profiles: Found throughout the book, these explain new technologies, their uses, and their place in the composing process. These sections cover useful topics from Web search techniques to writing basic Web pages.
• Four Types of Writing Prompts for each chapter:
  Write Now: Pre-writing prompts that open each chapter.
  Analysis and Response: discussion and writing prompts that follow each reading and encourage critical reading and rhetorical analysis.
  
Writing Activities: The Writing Activities appear throughout each chapter, focussing on researching and composing for different communities (academic, national, global) in progression with the Units.
Writing Projects: A range of prompts for extended writing and collaborative projects designed for both the on-line and traditional classroom.
• Readings: The book includes over sixty separate readings from print and electronic genres. Academic essays, personal writing, expository prose, webzines, email and discussion thread posts, newspaper articles, and magazine stories are all represented.