ABOUT THIS BOOK

Thinking Globally, Composing Locally explores how writing and its pedagogy should adapt to the ever-expanding environment of international online communication. Communication to a global audience presents a number of new challenges; writers seeking to connect with individuals from many different cultures must rethink their concept of audience. They must also prepare to address friction that may arise from cross-cultural rhetorical situations, variation in available technology and in access between interlocutors, and disparate legal environments.

The volume offers a pedagogical framework that addresses three interconnected and overarching objectives: using online media to contact audiences from other cultures to share ideas; presenting ideas in a manner that invites audiences from other cultures to recognize, understand, and convey or act upon them; and composing ideas to connect with global audiences to engage in ongoing and meaningful exchanges via online media. Chapters explore a diverse range of pedagogical techniques, including digital notebooks designed to create a space for active dialogic and multicultural inquiry, experience mapping to identify communication disruption points in international customer service, and online forums used in global distance education.

Thinking Globally, Composing Locally will prove an invaluable resource for instructors seeking to address the many exigencies of online writing situations in global environments.

Contributors: Suzanne Blum Malley, Katherine Bridgman, Maury Elizabeth Brown, Kaitlin Clinnin, Cynthia Davidson, Susan Delagrange, Scott Lloyd Dewitt, Amber Engelson, Kay Halasek, Lavinia Hirsu, Daniel Hocutt, Vassiliki Kourbani, Tika Lamsal, Liz Lane, Ben Lauren, J. C. Lee, Ben McCorkle, Jen Michaels, Minh-Tam Nguyen, Beau S. Pihlaja, Mª Pilar Milagros, Cynthia L. Selfe, Heather Turner, Don Unger, Josephine Walwema

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Rich Rice is a professor of English at Texas Tech University, where he teaches courses in new media, intercultural communication, rhetoric, and composition in the Technical Communication and Rhetoric program. He is a US Fulbright-Nehru Scholar, and his teaching and research extend to India and China, where he has served as a Visiting Research Professor.

Kirk St.Amant is the Eunice C. Williamson Endowed Chair in Technical Communication at Louisiana Tech University and an adjunct professor of international health and medical communication with the University of Limerick.

REVIEWS

“[A] collection of freshly postmodern chapters that (re)frame technical communication and composition/writing research and pedagogy . . . a valuable contribution.”
—Katherine V. Wills, Indiana University–Purdue University, Columbus

“If you teach technical writing, you will find this book valuable both to devise new curricula and to
assign case studies to your students.”
—Technical Communication

"Rice and St. Amant’s collection of essays is a valuable resource for composition and technical communication instructors interested in exploring new ways of connecting their students with global audiences and promoting intercultural exchange and understanding."
—Composition Studies

"An incredibly relevant and valuable contribution to the field."
—Technical Communication Quarterly

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction—Thinking Globally, Composing Locally: Re-thinking Online Writing in the Age of the Global Internet / Rich Rice and Kirk St.Amant

Section I: Contacting

1. Digital Notebooks: Composing with Open Access / Josephine Walwema

2. Disjuncture, Difference, and Representation in Experience Mapping / Minh-Tam Nguyen, Heather Noel Turner, and Benjamin Lauren

3. Lessons from an International Public Forum: Literacy Development in New Media Environments / J. C. Lee

4. Reconstructing Ethos as Dwelling Place: On the Bridge of Twenty-First Century Writing Practices (ePortfolios and Blogfolios) / Cynthia Davidson

5. Considering Global Communication and Usability as Networked Engagement: Lessons from 4C4Equality / Liz Lane and Don Unger

Section II: Conveying

6. Ludic Is the New Phatic: Making Connections in Global, Internet-Mediated Learning Environments / Suzanne Blum Malley

7. The MOOC as a Souk: Writing Instruction, World Englishes, and Writers at Scale / Kaitlin Clinnin, Kay Halasek, Ben McCorkle, Susan Delagrange, Scott Lloyd Dewitt, Jen Michaels, and Cynthia L. Selfe

8. “Resources Are Power”: Writing across the Global Information Divide / Amber Engelson

9. Activity Theory, Actor-Network Theory, and Culture in the Twenty-First Century / Beau S. Pihlaja

10. Examining Digital Composing Practices in an Intercultural Writing Class in Turkey: Empirical Data on Student Negotiations / Mª Pilar Milagros

Section III: Connecting

11. Writing Center Asynchronous/Synchronous Online Feedback: The Relationship between E-Feedback and Its Impact on Student Satisfaction, Learning, and Textual Revision / Vassiliki Kourbani

12. Clicks, Tweets, Links, and Other Global Actions: The Nature of Distributed Agency in Digital Environments / Lavinia Hirsu

13. Connecting the Local and the Global: Digital Interfaces and Hybrid Embodiment in Transnational Activism / Katherine Bridgman

14. Globally Digital, Digitally Global: Multimodal Literacies among Bhutanese Refugees in the United States / Tika Lamsal

15. Glocalizing the Composition Classroom with Google Apps for Education / Daniel Hocutt and Maury Brown

Afterword—Navigating Composition Practices in International Online Environments / Kirk St.Amant and Rich Rice

About the Authors

Index

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