Writing Across Distances and Disciplines:

Writing Across Distances and Disciplines addresses questions that cross borders between onsite, hybrid, and distributed learning environments, between higher education and the workplace, and between distance education and composition pedagogy. This groundbreaking volume raises critical issues, clarifies key terms, reviews history and theory, analyzes current research, reconsiders pedagogy, explores specific applications of WAC and WID in distributed environments, and considers what business and education might teach one another about writing and learning. Exploring the intersection of writing across the curriculum, composition studies, and distance learning, it provides an in-depth look at issues of importance to students, faculty, and administrators regarding the technological future of writing and learning in higher education.

Figures and Profiles	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Influences and Confluences: Distributed Learning, the Business of Education, and Writing Across the Curriculum	p. 1
A Landscape of Terminology	p. 5
Clash of Cultures: Business, Higher Education, and Information Technology	p. 7
Distributed Learning and Workplace Training	p. 12
WAC and WID's Potential for Distributed Learning	p. 14
History Lessons: Tensions Between Customization and Efficiency	p. 21
Customizing Delivery and Curriculum	p. 23
Balancing Efficiency With Customization in Software	p. 28
Past Tensions in Software Tool Development: A History of Errors, Correction, and Writing	p. 33
Future Tensions	p. 36
The Transition to Distributed Learning: A Research Perspective on Pedagogy	p. 39
Recent Studies	p. 40
Trajectory of Change in Research on Distributed Learning	p. 47
Revising Paradigms for Distributed Learning Research	p. 52
Teaching With WAC: A Redesigned Act in Distributed Learning	p. 57
Pedagogical Considerations	p. 60
Teaching as a Redesigned Act	p. 72
Maintaining Balance While Redesigning Your Teaching Techniques	p. 75
Process Scripts for Active Learning: WAC in Distributed Environments	p. 81
Process Scripts	p. 82
Interaction and Active Learning	p. 88
Communicative Interaction and Active Learning: Differences Between Liberatory and Process-Focused Pedagogies	p. 92
Communication as Alternative and Resistive Discourse	p. 93
Structuring Asynchronous Communications	p. 94
Evaluating Asynchronous Communications	p. 96
Moving Closer to Process Scripts	p. 98
Using Collaborative Learning and WAC in Distributed Environments	p. 99
Complementing and Customizing: WID in Hybrid Environments	p. 105
Complementing Face-to-Hace Courses	p. 106
Customizing Course Content for Individual Learners	p. 110
WAC, WID, and the Business of E-Learning	p. 117
The Value of Workforce Training and Lifelong Learning	p. 119
Writing in Business and in School	p. 125
Situated E-learning	p. 129
Electronic Delivery of Learning	p. 130
Learning From WAC, WID, and Writing at Work	p. 133
The Future of Writing in Distributed Learning	p. 137
Writing Across the Curriculum	p. 137
Distributed Learning	p. 138
Bridging the Divide	p. 139
Higher Education in the Future	p. 140
Researching WAC and Distributed Learning	p. 143
References	p. 145
Glossary	p. 159
Resources	p. 163
MLA Endorsement of AAUP Statement on Distance Education	p. 165
MLA Guidelines	p. 167
CCCC Position Statement	p. 169
Matrix Templates	p. 175
Index	p. 179
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