Knowledge Practices of Academic Writing in Internet-mediated Learning Environments
What happens to discourse, to community, and to writing when we take our classrooms to internet-mediated spaces? What do students writing practices in these spaces tell us about how and what they are learning?
What does an analysis of asynchronous discourse in IMLEs tell us about how students write in those spaces for relational (social) and transactional (informational) purposes?
Research Question 2
What rhetorical patterns persist so that they become strategies – evolving generic conventions of IMLEs -- that create a learning space?
Research Question 3
What can we learn about the knowledge practices of academic writing by examining these patterns in IMLEs?