Bill Wolff's Composing Spaces

I’m very happy to announce that I have received a rare awarding of an Honorable Mention in Rowan University’s Junior Faculty Innovative Teaching Award competition. This is especially gratifying because judges are Rowan colleagues who have received the award in past years.

My 2010 Conference on College Composition and Communication presentation is entitled, “Revealing Meaning, Broadcasting History: Notes on the Composition of Oral History Video.” I am pleased to be presenting on the panel, “Images, Rhetoric, and the Construction of Meaning” with friends and colleagues, Christa Teston and Billie Hara. Here is the abstract as submitted: In her 2004 [...]

This semester in Writing for Electronic Communities I’m assigning a selection of readings on Web 2.o, which I am calling The Web 2.0 Readings Packet. (Original, I know.) I thought I would share what I have included so far and also see if you have any suggestions that I might have forgotten. I suspect that [...]

This semester in Writing for Electronic Communities I would like to try a collaborative writing assignment that uses a wiki or GoogleDocs. I’ve never done a collaborative writing assignment before. The assignment would have the following goals: introduce students to wikis and/or Google Docs as a collaborative writing space as distinguished from blogging and micro-blogging challenge students’ [...]