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Teaching Writing Online, Part 2

Purpose

We will continue to discuss Scott Warnock's book, Teaching Writing Online: How & Why, focusing on its usefulness for preparing writing instructors to teach writing with the technologies available in 2010.

Debriefing I–Questions about Labor reading

The instructor will field questions that the students have about the readings associated with issues of labor.

Freewrite–I, Publisher

For fifteen minutes address the following prompt:

What are specific features of Warnock's book that make it useful for writing instructors teaching from a distance in 2010? Also, Warnock, like most authors, probably had some constraints on producing this book. What would you have liked to have seen covered or developed that was not? For some of you, other ways to think about this question is if he was writing for a more advanced audience, what should he cover, or how would you write this book?

Discussion–Teaching Writing Online

We will discuss the following questions:

• What questions do you have about Warnock's book?
• What pedagogical philosophy about teaching and teaching writing is Warnock using as the foundation for this book?
• What is your opinion of Warnock's book?
• If you were Warnock's publisher what would you want to see him do with this text?

Debriefing II–Applying Teaching Writing Online

Based upon Warnock's book, your experiences over the last week, and a healthy understanding of good pedagogy, how would you revise the design of the last two class meetings? <This discussion is not meant to prompt anyone to fawn over the instructor's brilliance–as if this is even the case–rather it is an opportunity for you to apply Warnock's principles and critically analyze a real distance education situation>.