CW2001 Program - Computers and Writing

9:45 — 11:00 Session A.1
Online Tutoring and Conferencing
RB 105
Martha Payne, moderator
Mary Gitzen
Face-To-Face: Conferencing in ESL Writing Instruction
This presentation addresses the use of a conference pedagogy in a
networked classroom to accommodate diversity within a class of
non-native speakers. Discussion of a pilot project implementing such
an approach during the spring 1999 semester includes instructors’
experiences, preliminary data analysis, and assessment of how a
one-to-one approach with students can produce significant results.
Miriam Olver
Conferencing in a Networked Classroom
This paper addresses the question of how conferencing in a networked
classroom can best be used to accommodate the diversity among
international student writers to facilitate composition instruction for
these students. One such approach was implemented as a pilot project
during the spring 1999 semester at a large Midwestern university. The
experiences and data analysis of the instructors are described, and
their assessment of how a one-to-one approach with students
produces significant results are discussed.
Madeline Yonker
cancelled
Seeing the One-to-One Writing Conference Through OWL Eyes
This project brings the one-to-one writing tutorial to distance learning
students at Old Dominion University through LinguaMOO. Students
in a 300-level Introduction to Rhetoric course participate in writing
conferences for various assignments. Studying the transcripts reveals
several conventions of the traditional writing conference that “don’t fit”
within the context of a synchronous online tutorial. This presentation
seeks to describe the online synchronous writing conference with
respect to traditional writing center theory through the analysis and
coding of a series of conference transcripts.
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