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Review of Teaching Literature in the Online Classroom. (MLA, 2022).
Edited by John Miller and Julie Wilhelm.
Reviewed by Joonna Smitherman Trapp.
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"Literature pedagogy has always been grounded in a belief that something special happens in the face-to-face community coming together over a shared text. The forced move to online instruction during the pandemic resulted in explorations of various means of creating student community learning in the literature class. A collection of essays on this topic demonstrates that literature can be effectively taught online, even in asynchronous environments..."
Review of AI and Writing. (Broadview Press, 2023).
by Sidney I. Dobrin.
Reviewed by Destiny Brugman.
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"In AI and Writing, Sidney I. Dobrin provides readers with an accessible and easy-to-navigate overview of multiple aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impacts on writing and learning. In the introduction, Dobrin explains that the book “focuses on transferable skills that can assist student writers in many contexts and on many platforms” (p. x). To follow through with this claim, each of the 10 chapters wraps up with an End of Chapters Materials section in which Dobrin offers questions, applications, and activities..."
Review of Theories and Strategies for Teaching Creative Writing Online. (Routledge, 2021).
edited by Tamara Girardi and Abigail G. Scheg.
Reviewed by Vee Kennedy.
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"When we imagine a creative writing classroom, we often imagine a room full of students interacting in a workshop setting, reading to one another and providing critique and notes, or perhaps the traditional “writerly silence” workshop where the writer sits in bated breath listening to their peers analyze their work. The online classroom provides a much different experience for both educators and students. Theories and Strategies for Teaching Creative Writing Online (2021), an edited collection from Routledge edited by Tamara Girardi and Abigail G. Scheg, seeks to reimagine the creative writing classroom from the physical to the digital space."