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Multiliteracies for a Digital Age
Stuart A. Selber
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Description for Multiliteracies for a Digital Age
Paperback. 'Multiliteracies for a Digital Age' serves as a guide for composition teachers to develop effective, full-scale computer literacy programs that are also professionally responsible by emphasizing different kinds of literacies. Stuart A. Selber also proposes methods for helping students move among these literacies in strategic ways. Series: Studies in Writing and Rhetoric. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CJCW; JNM; UY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
Multiliteracies for a Digital Age serves as a guide for composition teachers to develop effective, full-scale computer literacy programs that are also professionally responsible by emphasizing different kinds of literacies. Stuart A. Selber also proposes methods for helping students move among these literacies in strategic ways. Defining computer literacy as a domain of writing and communication, Selber addresses the questions that few other computer literacy texts consider: What should a computer literate student be able to do? What is required of literacy teachers to educate such a student? How can functional computer literacy fit within the values of teaching writing and communication as a profession? Reimagining functional literacy in ways that speak to teachers of writing and communication, he builds a framework for computer literacy instruction that blends functional, critical, and rhetorical concerns in the interest of social action and change. Multiliteracies for a Digital Age reviews the extensive literature on computer literacy and critiques it from a humanistic perspective. This approach, which will remain useful as new versions of computer hardware and software inevitab
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Writing and Rhetoric
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809325511
SKU
V9780809325511
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About Stuart A. Selber
Stuart A. Selber is an assistant professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the editor of Computers and Technical Communication: Pedagogical and Programmatic Perspectives and the coeditor of Central Works in Technical Communication.
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