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Claire Lauer; Eva Brumberger – College Composition and Communication, 2019
In this article we argue that mobile, design, content, and social media technologies have fundamentally redefined the role of the writer in the workplace. Rather than the originator of content, the writer is becoming a sort of multimodal editor who revises, redesigns, remediates, and upcycles content into new forms, for new audiences, purposes,…
Descriptors: Authors, Work Attitudes, Work Environment, Human Factors Engineering
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Brian Gogan – College Composition and Communication, 2014
This article outlines a three-part pedagogy capable of responding to the risks, rewards, and headaches associated with public rhetoric and writing. To demonstrate the purchase of this pedagogy, I revisit one of the oldest and most misunderstood public rhetoric and writing assignments: the letter-to-the-editor assignment.
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Rhetoric, Writing Assignments
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Raymond, James C. – College Composition and Communication, 1993
Questions the use of the first-person "I" as a mode of expression by academic writers in scholarly journals. Describes the author's experience in this regard as editor of the journal "College English." Considers the editorial difficulties presented by various forms of first-person writing. (HB)
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Editing, Higher Education, Scholarly Journals
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Lofty, John – College Composition and Communication, 1985
One approach for encouraging students to develop their sense of audience is for them to record an interview, transcribe it, and then edit the written form for different audiences and rhetorical purposes. (HOD)
Descriptors: Editing, Higher Education, Interviews, Language Patterns
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Grow, Gerald – College Composition and Communication, 1988
Describes the writing problems of "real world" professional users of word processing, which include editing instead of revising and rethinking, a reluctance to rewrite, and word-inflation. Suggests strategies for working with students to avoid these problems, focusing on functional writing used by professionals in various fields. (MM)
Descriptors: Editing, Higher Education, Job Skills, Professional Training
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O'Mealy, Joseph; Register, James – College Composition and Communication, 1984
Describes the University of Hawaii's writing workshop, a supplemental service of the English department that offers tutorial sessions on a drop-in, voluntary basis. (FL)
Descriptors: Course Content, Drills (Practice), Editing, Higher Education
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Catano, James V. – College Composition and Communication, 1985
Explains how a year of observing two successful novelists write and revise on the computer provided a number of ideas that are encapsulated in the concept of a fluid text or the writer's conscious avoidance of a text that becomes static or fixed. (HOD)
Descriptors: Authors, Behavior Patterns, Creativity, Editing
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Deem, James – College Composition and Communication, 1985
One teaching approach for basic writing students is to have them transcribe their inner speech--of matching their oral language to written language. (HOD)
Descriptors: Editing, Higher Education, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Paragraph Composition
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College Composition and Communication, 1981
Offers three techniques for helping students learn to revise entire pieces, discover how words work in context, and eliminate errors. (RL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, College English