Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Chapter 18: CCC Looking for Sources of Coherence in a Fragmented World: Notes toward a New Assessment Design

Citation: Yancey, Kathleen Blake. 2004, March. “Looking for sources of coherence in a fragmented world: Notes toward a new assessment design.” Computers and Composition 21 (1): 89-102.

Reading and Thinking

Beginning with the assumption that “coherence” is the main attribute of both print and digital texts, Yancey explores what that means for digital texts, focusing on the kind of relationships that are created among various elements of a text. As a base for assessment, she presents a discovery to encourage an analysis based position toward digital compositions that focuses on types of arrangements created, their intention, and their effects. Are the effects conducive?


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