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Blogging and Academic Writing Development

Blogging and Academic Writing Development

Joel Bloch, Cathryn Crosby
ISBN13: 9781599048956|ISBN10: 1599048957|EISBN13: 9781599048963
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-895-6.ch003
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Bloch, Joel, and Cathryn Crosby. "Blogging and Academic Writing Development." Handbook of Research on Computer-Enhanced Language Acquisition and Learning, edited by Felicia Zhang and Beth Barber, IGI Global, 2008, pp. 36-47. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-895-6.ch003

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Bloch, J. & Crosby, C. (2008). Blogging and Academic Writing Development. In F. Zhang & B. Barber (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Computer-Enhanced Language Acquisition and Learning (pp. 36-47). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-895-6.ch003

Chicago

Bloch, Joel, and Cathryn Crosby. "Blogging and Academic Writing Development." In Handbook of Research on Computer-Enhanced Language Acquisition and Learning, edited by Felicia Zhang and Beth Barber, 36-47. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-895-6.ch003

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Abstract

This chapter discusses the use of blogging in a beginning level academic writing course. Blogging was used in this writing course both as a means of interacting with the other students and as a means of discussing the issues the students were to write about in their classroom assignments, all of which dealt with issues related to the nature of plagiarism and what policies towards plagiarism should the university adopt. The chapter analyzes the blogs of an African immigrant student. It is argued that the use of blogs allows the students to develop a variety of rhetorical strategies outside the confines of the course that could then be transferred into the student’s academic writing assignments.

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