Writing From Sources . St. Martin's Press, 1996. You can save them to your own disk to read on computer, or print them out at the SuperLab or elsewhere. This section of College Writing II focuses on electronic literacy.
Electronic literacy is an extension of print literacy.
Both involve knowing how to find and evaluate sources, how to frame arguments, how to analyze, generalize, and synthesize from sources, and how to compose writing incorporating the ideas of others for various purposes for various audiences. It involves becoming familiar with non-print digital sources and resources such as web conferences and listservs, and audio and video content. In some undergraduate research writing courses, students are given carte blanche in selecting and pursuing their own research areas. In others, the teacher frames or delimits the research area while inviting students to discover and work with their own specific topics and issues within that area. This course is of the latter type.