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Process-Blogging Research Project Web Page
 

Sabatino Mangini & Jessica Schreyer
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Doctoral Students in Composition & TESOL

Process Blogging: Using a Blog as a Component of the Writing Process

Overview:

The aim of this web page is to present helpful resources and information related to our conception of a new  type of blogging: Process-Blogging. The aim of this research was to practice (as students) and analyze (as researchers) a teaching-with-blogging strategy we would like to employ in the developmental writing classroom. We were interested in this topic because we both teach basic composition. We questioned whether blogging could provide another avenue for basic writers to become more comfortable with writing, and allow them to enjoy writing more through a collaborative blog. Through our research, we developed the term of process-blogging, a concept that combines process writing, blogging, and collaborative learning. If you have any questions related to our research, please contact Jessica Schreyer, j.schreyer@iup.edu, and/or Sabatino Mangini, s.m.mangini@iup.edu

Information about our research

Process-Blogging (our research blog)  This blog was created as a means to conduct our mini-research study.  It examines using blogs as a part of the writing process.

Process-Blogging Powerpoint Show / Powerpoint Presentation

Resources on Blogging, Technology in Composition, and Basic Writers

Computers and Composition Comprehensive Bibliography  This resource provides an index of articles from Computers and Composition.

Rebecca Moore Howard's Bibliography on Technology and Composition  This resource provides a wonderful bibliography of various resources available on technology in the composition class.

 The Year of the Blog  This page provides resources related to the boom in the use of blogs in the composition classroom around 2003. 

Blogs and Composition Research: This page summarizes some of the history and ethical issues related to blog use in composition.

Blogs and Basic Writers:  This site is related to basic writing and blog use. 

Rebecca Blood's Blog: Offers a history of blogging.

Bedford Bibliography on Basic Writers

Mike Rose Blog

Epistemology Resources

Social Construction and Composition Links

Social Constructionism Resource Links

A Marxist Interpretation of Pragmatism

Charles Sanders Pierce

John Dewey

William James

Clips

 

Peter Elbow, "On Writing"

Elementary Students blogging

Post-secondary students blogging

Relevant Journals

Computers and Composition

Kairos

Some references related to our project: blogging, collaborative writing, and basic writers

  Accardi, S. & Davila, B. (2007). Too many cooks in the kitchen: A Multifield Approach for

today’s composition students. Teaching English in the two-year college, 35 (1), 54-61.

  Adler-Kassner, L. & Glau, G. (2005).  The Bedford bibliography for teachers of basic writing.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s.

  Barker, T. and Kemp, F. (1990). Network theory: A postmodern pedagogy for the writing classroom. In Handa, C., editor, Computers and Community: Teaching Composition in the Twenty-First Century, (pp. 1-27). Boynton/Cook Publishers, New York.

  Baron, D. (1999). From pencils to pixels: The stages of literacy technologies. In Hawisher, E. & Selfe, C. (Eds.), Passions, pedagogies, and 21st century technologies (pp. 15-33). Utah: Utah State University Press.

  Bizzell, P. (1982). College composition: Initiation into the academic discourse community. Curriculum Inquiry, 12(2), 191-207.

  Blankenship, L. (2007). Interactivism: Transforming the composition classroom through blogging.  Dissertation Abstracts International, 68 (08). (UMI No. 3276880)

  Dale, H. (1997). Co-authoring in the classroom: creating an environment for effective collaboration.  Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English

  Ede, L & Lunsford, A. (1990).  Singular texts/plural authors. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

  Gagnon, G. & Collay, M. (2006). Constructivist learning design. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

  Gunelius, S. (n.d.).  What is a blog? Retrieved on June 28, 2008.   http://weblogs.about.com/od/startingablog/p/WhatIsABlog.htm.

  Haas, C. (1996). Writing technology: Studies on the materiality of literacy. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

  Inman, J. (2004). Computers and writing: The cyborg era.  Mahway, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

  Mangini, S. & Schreyer, J. (2008). Process-blogging. http://www.processblogging.blogspot.com.

  O’Donnell, A., Hmelo-Silver, C. & Erkens, G. (Eds.), (2006) Collaborative learning, reasoning, and technology.  Mahway, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

  Pagnucci, G. S, & Mauriello, N. (2003). Balancing acts: Tightrope walking above an ever changing (Inter)Net. In P. Takayoshi & B. Huot (Eds.), Teaching writing with computers. An introduction. (pp. 79-91). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

  Penrod, D. (2005). Composition in convergence. Mahway, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

  Penrod, D. (2007). Using blogs to enhance literacy: The next powerful step in 21st-century learning. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Education.

  Schwandt, T. A. (2001). Dictionary of qualitative inquiry (Second ed). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

  Shaugnessy, M. (1977) Errors and expectations.  New York: Oxford UP.

  Tyron, C (2006).  Writing and citizenship: Using blogs to teach first-year composition.  Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. 1(6), 128-32.

  Xie , Y., Fengfeng,K., & Priya, S. (2008). The effect of peer feedback for blogging on college

            students' reflective learning processes. Internet and Higher Education, 11 (1), 18-25.