1. Working Web 2.0: User Generated Content
and Global Writing
By
Casey R. McArdle
Ball State University

2. Core curriculum goals of the university: “primary emphasis
is preparation for roles people share as human beings and
as members of family and community groups” that require
students, upon graduation, to work “with others to solve
life’s common problems” (Ball State University).
Program Students
Goals
Web 2.0

3. What is our job?
It is more than just reading
and writing – it is a way of
thinking.
Begin with familiar writing
assignments, then move into
environments our students
are already well-immersed.

4. Multiliteracies for a Digital Age
by Stuart Selber (2004)
Functional
Critical
Rhetorical
(multiliteracies for any age)
functionality of Web 2.0 (how does it work?)
critical thinkers (why does it work the way it does?)
rhetorical contributors (how can I add my voice to the
discussion?)

7. Kenneth Bruffee emphasizes
the social nature of public
writing, something common
in nonacademic settings. He
argues for students to go
public with their writing to
receive feedback because
public writing in classrooms
deemphasizes teacher
authority and urges students
to see themselves as
responsible writers and to
view writing as a social
activity.

8. Perhaps most important, seen historically this 21st century writing
marks the beginning of a new era in literacy, a period we might
call the Age of Composition, a period where composers become
composers not through direct and formal instruction alone (if at
all), but rather through what we might call an extracurricular
social co-apprenticeship. (Yancey)

9. Uniting Jürgen Habermas & Web 2.0
...in civil society private persons congregate
who are not acting in any official capacity
when they gather, who do not know each
other intimately, and who meet primarily to
talk and exchange opinions... we must
strive to fully reintegrate the discourses of
modern science, art, and politics with the
everyday perspectives of a life-world in
which people strive to secure a decent
existence for themselves and their loved
ones. (Leitch 1743-1744)

13. Student: “I’ll never doubt the power of my blog!”
Me: “Never doubt the power of your voice.”

14. This is the most important class you will ever take.

15. Works Cited
Ball State University. University Core Curriculum. 25 September 2010. Web.
Bruffee, Kenneth. “Collaborative learning and the conversation of mankind.” College English 46.7 (1984):
635-52.
Leitch, Vincent B. Ed. et al. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001.
Selber, Stuart A. Multiliteracies for a Digital Age. Illinois: NCTE, 2004.
Yancey, Kathleen. “Writing in the 21st Century: A Report from the National Council Teachers of English.”
NCTE.org Feb. 2009. Web. 3 Dec. 2009.
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