Digital Writing Technologies in Higher Education
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This open access book serves as a comprehensive guide to digital writing technology, featuring contributions from over 20 renowned researchers from various disciplines around the world. The book is designed to provide a state-of-the-art synthesis of the developments in digital writing in higher education, making it an essential resource for anyone interested in this rapidly evolving field. In the first part of the book, the authors offer an overview of the impact that digitalization has had on writing, covering more than 25 key technological innovations and their implications for writing…mehr

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This open access book serves as a comprehensive guide to digital writing technology, featuring contributions from over 20 renowned researchers from various disciplines around the world. The book is designed to provide a state-of-the-art synthesis of the developments in digital writing in higher education, making it an essential resource for anyone interested in this rapidly evolving field.
In the first part of the book, the authors offer an overview of the impact that digitalization has had on writing, covering more than 25 key technological innovations and their implications for writing practices and pedagogical uses. Drawing on these chapters, the second part of the book explores the theoretical underpinnings of digital writing technology such as writing and learning, writing quality, formulation support, writing and thinking, and writing processes. The authors provide insightful analysis on the impact of these developments and offer valuable insights into the future of writing. Overall, this book provides a cohesive and consistent theoretical view of the new realities of digital writing, complementing existing literature on the digitalization of writing. It is an essential resource for scholars, educators, and practitioners interested in the intersection of technology and writing.
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Otto Kruse is a retired professor at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. He received his doctoral degree and habilitation from the Technical University of Berlin and is specialized in the teaching and research of academic writing. He was and is involved in several international research projects exploring writing in European higher education and currently is focusing on digital writing, for instance, by developing Thesis Writer, a tool supporting dissertation writers. Christian Rapp is leading the Educational Technology Team at the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, School of Management and Law, Zurich University of Applied Sciences. He is a coordinator of several international R&D projects funded by EU and Swiss National Science Foundation. He specializes in writing technology and is a fellow of the Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions. Chris Anson is Distinguished University Professor and Executive Director of the Campus Writing and Speaking Program at North Carolina State University. He has published extensively in the field of writing studies and has spoken and consulted widely across the United States and several dozen other countries. He is the past chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and past president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, and is currently Chair of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research. His professional summary can be found at www.ansonica.net. Kalliopi Benetos is a senior researcher and lecturer in educational technology at the University of Geneva's Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, where she teaches courses in HCI and digital fabrication. She uses design-based research approaches to develop and study instructional designs and digital environments to support critical and epistemic thinking and learning through argumentation and has published multiple papers in the domain of technology-mediated learning and instruction. Elena Cotos is an associate professor of applied linguistics, director of the Center for Communication Excellence, and associate dean for professional development at Iowa State University. Her research bridges corpus-based analysis of academic discourse, genre-based automated evaluation of scientific writing, and computer-assisted language learning. She has led design, research, and evaluation projects focused on intelligent writing technology and also developed massive open online writing-related courses sponsored by the US Department of State. Ann Devitt is an associate professor in language education at the School of Education and Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.  She is Academic Director for Learnovate, the Enterprise Ireland funded centre of excellence for educational technology which is hosted in Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests lie in the use of technology in education, in particular for language and literacy learning.  Antonette Shibani is a lecturer and researcher at the TD (TransDisciplinary) School, University of Technology Sydney. She researches the use of learning analytics and artificial intelligence tools to improve educational practice with a special focus on writing technologies. Shibani has served on the executive committee of the Society for Learning Analytics Research and founded its special interest group on Writing Analytics.