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Jordan Craven

Professor Jan Rieman

English 1103

November 2, 2010

Annotated Bibliography

Haas, Christina. Writing Technology: Studies on the Materiality of Literacy. Mahwah, New
Jersey. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 1996. Book.

Christina Haas’s work is based out of the University of Pennsylvania. Her book on the writing
technologies of today is targeted at those who take an interest in the effect that technology is
changing our ways of writing. Compared to the other sources above, this book delves into more
of the way technology has changed writing throughout time, not just how it affects teens and
their writing. This book helps add to the topic of my paper by showing how not just the advances
in today’s society has effected writing, but other advances in the past as well.

Jacobs, Gloria E. “We Learn What We Do: Developing a Repertoire of Writing Practices in an
Instant Messaging World.” Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. 52.3 (2008): 203-
211. Academic Search Premier. Web. 17 Oct. 2010.

Gloria Jacobs, the author, is a teacher at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York. This
article was about a study done on Computer Mediated Communication (CMC), such as instant
messaging, and chatting. It showed how students are developing the ability to separate the
informal writing they do like texting and IM-ing, and the formal writing that they do for
academic purposes. The intended audience for this article is very much like the audience for the
source mentioned above; middle and high school educators. This article also sheds light on how
students can separate formal academic writing and informal CMC writing. Compared to the
article above, this article is about the same. They are on similar topics and both provide
convincing arguments as to the positive effects of CMC.

Turner, Kristen Hawley. Digitalk: “A New Literacy for a Digital Generation.”

KappanMagazine.org. 92.1 (2010): 41-46. Academic Search Premier. Web. 17 Oct.
2010.

The author of the article, Kristen Turner, is an associate professor of education at Fordham
University in New York City. In this article Turner argues that the language that adolescents use
when communicating through instant messaging and texting is not a bad thing. She tries to show
that it should not be so heavily oppressed, rather it should try to be understood by educators and
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parents alike that it is a way of writing. I believe that her targeted audience was other educators,
mainly middle and high school teachers. This article compared to some of my other sources is
very adequate and informative. This article highlights the fact that while technology is changing
the way we write, it is not entirely destroying our ability to write in Formal English.

Withrow, Frank B. Literacy in the Digital Age: Reading, Writing, Viewing, and Computing.
Lanham, Maryland. ScarecrowEducation. 2004. Book.

Withrow is the president of A Better Learning Experience Company. He is an Educator and also
worked for the Department of Education for thirty years. I believe the intended audience of this
book is educators, because it is encouraging the use of technology in schools. Compared to the
other sources this one is similar to the journal sources in that they all promote the use of new
technology in schools as writing tools. This book explains more of how technology has affected
literacy and the ways we use this new technology.