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ERIC Number: EJ544822
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0047-2395
Playing the Lynx: Creating The Writer's Complex as a Virtual Writing Center for Students at a Distance.
Handley, Elaine; Oaks, Susan
Journal of Educational Technology Systems, v25 n2 p109-16 1996-97
Describes the planning and implementation of an online writing center for adult students of SUNY Empire State College, a non-residential, independent-study distance-learning institution. Highlights informational and facilitative properties of hypertext and the need for a personalized instructor "voice." Components of the program included a "file cabinet" of model papers and conference spaces for peer critiquing. (PEN)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Distance Education, Group Discussion, Higher Education, Hypermedia, Independent Study, Program Implementation, Student Participation, Teleconferencing, Writing Instruction, Writing Laboratories
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: State University of New York Empire State Coll; Virtual Classrooms; Voice (Rhetoric); Writing Models