Digital Pedagogy

Online Writing Instruction

Please keep in mind that this list is a work-in-progress and is not meant to be a complete list of scholarship about online writing instruction. 

Click on each citation below to be directed to the corresponding annotation. 

Overviews and Foundational Principles

The Conference on College Composition and Communication Committee for Best Practices

in Online Writing Instruction. A Position Statement of Principles and Example 

Effective Practices for Online Writing Instruction (OWI). NCTE, 2013,

http://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/resources/positions/owiprinciples

Hewett, Beth L. “Grounding Principles of OWI.” Foundational Practices of Online Writing 

Instruction, edited by Beth L. Hewett and Kevin Eric DePew, WAC Clearinghouse, 

2015, pp. 33-92. 

Warnock, Scott. Teaching Writing Online: How and Why. National Council of Teachers of 
English, 2009. 

Materiality: Devices, Displays, and Material Conditions

Griffin, June and Deborah Minter. “The Rise of the Online Writing Classroom: Reflecting on

the Material Conditions of College Composition Teaching.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 65, no. 1, 2013, pp. 140-161.

Rodrigo, Rochelle. “OWI on the Go.” Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction,

edited by Beth L. Hewett and Kevin Eric DePew, WAC Clearinghouse, 2015, pp. 493-516.

Yancey, Kathleen Blake, Jacob Craig, Matt Davis, and Michael Spooner. “Device. Display. 
Read: The Design of Reading and Writing and the Difference Display Makes.” Deep Reading: Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom, edited by Patrick Sullivan, Howard Tinberg, and Sheridan Blau, National Council of Teachers of English, 2017, pp. 33-56.

Digital Literacy: Reading, Composing, and Participating Online

Brown, John Seely and Paul Duguid. The Social Life of Information. Harvard Business Review Press, 2000.

Standage, Tom. Writing on the Wall: Social Media--The First 2,000 Years. Bloomsbury, 2013.

Sosnoski, James. “Hyper-readers and their Reading Engines.” Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st 

Century Literacies, edited by Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe, Utah State University Press‐NCTE, 1999, pp. 161‐177.

Wellman, Barry, and Lee Rainie. “The New Social Operating System of Networked 
Individualism.” Networked: The New Social Operating System, The MIT Press, 2012, 
pp. 3-20.

Professional Development, Teacher Education, and Course Design

Hewett, Beth L., and Tiffany Bourelle. “Online Teaching and Learning in Technical
Communication: Continuing the Conversation.” Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3, 2017, pp. 217-222.

Hewett, Beth L., and Christa Ehmann Powers. “Guest Editors’ Introduction: Online Teaching
and Learning: Preparation, Development, and Organizational Communication.” Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, 2007, pp. 1-11.

Warner, Robbin Z., and Beth L. Hewett. “Technical Communication Coaching: A Strategy for Instilling Reader Usability Assurance in Online Course Material Development.” Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3, 2017, pp. 300-313.