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Teaching Writing Online: How and Why by Scott Warnock. Urbana: NCTE, 2009. 235 pp.
Covering practical matters faced by online writing instructors, Scott Warnock's Teaching Writing Online: How and Why is for an audience of postsecondary teachers who are migrating to online writing instruction from traditional, face-to-face (f2f) classrooms and for teachers who already teach online and are eager to continue developing their skills. Studying parts of this book also would be instructive for departments developing best practices documents for online instruction, for specialists in learning technologies, and for administrators who need to understand the time-consuming nature of effective online composition classes.
Warnock writes from his experiences as a teacher of online, hybrid, and onsite courses and as director of the Freshman Writing Program at Drexel University. Composed of eighteen clearly titled chapters and appendixes, the book's format makes it accessible for jumping to particular subjects of interest. Not only does Warnock present critical questions facing online teachers and cite current research supporting his recommendations; in the process, he also establishes the merits and the excitement of online teaching, thus covering the why as well...