Re-embodying Online Composition: Ecologies of Writing in Unreal Time and Space |
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Authors: | Ken Gillam Shannon R Wooden |
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Affiliation: | Department of English, 901 S. National Ave., Springfield MO 65897;Missouri State University;Northern Michigan University |
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Abstract: | Using the ecological theories of writing proposed by Marilyn Cooper's “The Ecology of Writing” (1986) and Margaret Syverson's The Wealth of Reality: An Ecology of Composition (1999), this article describes a multi-step assignment sequence designed to engage online first year composition students across the ecological breadth of their writing and learning environments. The goal of the project is twofold: enriching students’ writing processes with a sophisticated understanding of the social situatedness of knowledge and rhetoric, we can simultaneously create high-functioning learning communities in an otherwise disembodied online learning space, not by upgrading our technological tools but by pedagogically guiding learners toward ecological and productively collaborative interactions with one another. |
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