UCI Writing Studio RetrospectivePedagogy-Driven Tech Tools andWPA Student Learning Outcomes

Lynda Haas, UC Irvine

Early Years: 2005-06We jumped in with both feet!

WPA Objective: Online Research

•Locate, evaluate, organize, and use research material collected from electronic sources

•Find, evaluate, analyze, and synthesize sources

• Write in several genres

• Adopt appropriate voice, tone, and Level of formality

• Respond to the needs of different audiences

WPA Objective: Rhetorical Knowledge

•Develop flexible strategies for generating, revising, editing, and proof-reading

•Use a variety of technologies to address a range of audiences

WPA Objective: Processes

Next Steps: 2007

Social networking andPersonal customization

Addition of an ePortfolio tool

Understand the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes

WPA Objective: Processes

New Ways to Collaborate: 2008

Class-Wide Writing Collaboration: Wikis

Understand the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes

WPA Objective: Processes

WPA Objective: Composing in Electronic Environments

Use electronic environments for drafting, reviewing, revising, and sharing texts

We Go Online:2008

The Studio as Home BaseFor Online Writing Courses

The Present:Combining and Sharing

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