An innovative, practical guide for middle and high school teachers, this book is packed with specific ways that technology can help serve the goals of effective writing instruction. It provides ready-to-implement strategies for teaching students to compose and edit written work electronically; conduct Internet inquiry; create blogs, websites, and podcasts; and use text messaging and Twitter productively. The book is grounded in state-of-the-art research on the writing process and the role of writing in content-area learning. Teacher-friendly features include vivid classroom examples, differentiation tips, links to online resources, and reproducible worksheets and forms. The large-size format facilitates photocopying. The table of contents presents the following parts: (1) Getting Started with Tools and Teaching; (2) Writing and Thinking; (3) Writing to Understand: It's All About the Discipline; (4) Inquiry and Long Thinking Meet the Disciplines; (5) What About Literature and English Language Arts?; (6) Composing with Multimedia; and (7) Wrapping It Up. "Common Core Content Standards for Writing, Grades 6-12" is appended. [Foreword by Bridget Dalton.]