Let Them Have Their Cell Phone (and Let Them Read to It Too): Technology,Writing Instruction and Textual Obsolescence |
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| Authors: | Jed Shahar |
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| Institution: | Basic Education Skills , Queensborough Community College of The City University of New York , New York , USA |
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| Abstract: | Cell phone ubiquity enables students to record and share audio file versions of their essays for proofreading purposes. Adopting this practice in community college developmental writing classes leads to an investigation of both writing as a technology and the influence of modern technology on composition and composition pedagogy. |
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| Keywords: | composition technology developmental education cell phones proofreading |
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