Robert E. Cummings is Director of First-year Composition and QEP Program Specialist for Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a Ph.D. in English in 2006. While there he participated in the development of , an open source networked teaching tool for composition, and helped to create the University's first widely adopted e-portfolio program for first-year composition.
"For those who value such a collaborative platform and students'
rights to a traditional liberal arts education but are insecure
with new technology, this book offers clear pedagogical grounding
in theory, history, and tradition - and then gives practical
collegial help."
--from the citation for the MLA's Mina P. Shaugnessy Prize for an
outstanding work in the fields of language, culture, literacy, or
literature with strong application to the teaching of English.
Informed, smart, incisive, this book explores the radical
hypothesis that the Wikipedia movement, too often linked with
declining standards of credibility and correctness, could teach
English composition faculty something they don't know about "higher
education, making knowledge, and teaching writing". Cummings
succeeds with marvelous skill at this delicate task. He offers
teachers a way to connect the "'disconnected' core courses of
composition to a real, authentic, knowledge community" and to
provide new audiences for students' writing. Cummings' passion for
this task is great, and his advice is sound. Your writing class may
"never be the same," he notes, after you read this book-and, by the
end of volume, you realize just how right he is.
--Cynthia L. Selfe, Ohio State University, author of Global
Literacies and the World Wide Web
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