The New Work of Composing

• Edited by Debra Journet, Cheryl E. Ball, & Ryan Trauman

  Book overview. This edited collection explores theoretical and practical questions about multimodal, digital production through lenses of rhetoric/composition, digital writing studies, English studies, and the humanities.

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• The New Work of the Book in Composition Studies: An Introduction

  Debra Journet, Cheryl E. Ball, and Ryan Trauman

  Abstract. Given our field’s long-standing history of digital publication in journals, it is appropriate that the new digital scholarly book begins in part with composition studies. As we have constructed this project, we have tried to consider what new kinds of disciplinary knowledge a digital book can promote. That is, we have asked what do we, as composition scholars, want from a digital book?

  APA Citation: Journet, Debra; Ball, Cheryl E.; & Trauman, Ryan. (2011). The new work of the book in composition studies: An introduction. In The new work of composing. Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press. http://ccdigitalpress.org/nwc/chapters/journet-et-al/

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Credits/Acknowledgements

The editors of this book wish to thank the following institutions for contributing resources to this collection:

• Thomas R. Watson Endowment at the University of Louisville
• Vectors/NEH 2008 Summer Institute, particularly designers Craig Detrich and Erik Loyer
• Illinois State University Faculty Excellence Initiative and the Pre-Tenure Faculty Initiative Grants

 

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