Writing and Digital Media

Introduction. (C. Neuwirth, L. Van Waes, M. Leijten). Writing Modes and Writing Environments. Assistive Technology for Writing: Tools for Struggling Writers. (C. MacArthur). Young Writers and Digital Scribes. (T. Quinlan). Repair Strategies in Writing with Speech Recognition: The Effect of Experience with Classical Dictating. (M. Leijten, L. Van Waes). Writing and Communication. Learning to Write in the Information Age: A Case Study of Schoolchildren's Writing in Sweden. (Y.H. af Segerstad, S. Sofkova Hashemi). Ludicity and Negotiated Meaning in Internet Chat. (R. Niesten, R. Sussex). Knowledge Acquisition by Designing Hypervideos: Different Roles of Writing During Courses of 'New' Media Production. (E. Stahl et al.). Digital Tools for Writing Research. Web Analysis Tools Based on Infoscent: How Cognitive Modelling Explain Reader Navigational Decisions. (E.H. Chi). Automated Web Site Evaluation Tools: Implications for Writers. (M.Y. Ivory-Ndiaye). Mining Textual Knowledge for Writing Education and Research: The DocuScope Project. (D. Kaufer et al.). Visualizing Patterns of Annotation in Document-Centered Collaboration on the Web. (H. Rodriguez, K. Severinson Eklundh). Online Study of Word Spelling Production in Children's Writing. (J. Noel Foulin, L. Chanquoy). Digital Tools for the Recording, the Logging and the Analysis of Writing Processes. Introduction, Overview and Framework. (K. Sullivan, E. Lindgren). Logging Writing Processes with Inputlog. (L. Van Waes, M. Leijten). Combining Keystroke Logging with Eye Tracking. (B. Andersson et al.). Progression Analysis: An Ethnographic, Computer-Based Multi- Method Approach to Investigate Natural Writing Processes. (D. Perrin). Camtasia & CatMovie: Two Digital Tools for Observing, Documenting and Analyzing Writing Processes of University Students. (M. Degenhardt). Writing in Online Educational Environments. Tools, Language Technology and Communication in Computer Assisted Language Learning. (P. Karlstrom et al.). Rethinking Instructional Metaphors for Web-Based Writing Environments. (M. Palmquist). Approaching the Skills of Writing. (P. Henning Uppstad, A. Kari Hansen Wagner). Social and Philosophical Aspects of Writing and Digital Media. Bilingual Literacy and a Modern Digital Divide. (S. Ransdell et al). Literacies and the Complexities of the Global Digital Divide. (C.L. Selfe et al.). Proposal for a Monument to Lost Data. (B. Mauer). References. Author Index. Subject Index. List of Contributors.

All in all, the book, edited by van Waes, Leijten, and Neuwirth, demonstrates a well-designed interplay between scholarship, research, and teaching in two areasWriting and Digital Media. Both seem key to a successful participation of its audience and immediate benefactors in the Information Society. For their pioneering work in bridging the gap between new fields of scholarship and traditional academic disciplines and for their courage in widening the scope of academic research toward its application in education, the editors and authors of Writing and Digital Media recently received the "Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award of 2007" presented by Michigan Technological University. Congratulations! -- Zeitschrift Schrieben