Writing in Our Digital World: A Writing Guide for a New Era
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 21
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Writing in Our Digital World encourages students to fashion their own computer-based writing environments to create and manage digital writing projects.
Designed to complement traditional writing curricula, this writing guide:
- Fosters proficiency in digital writing, a clear advantage in business and professions.
- Introduces foundation concepts and techniques for perfecting digital writing projects.
- Identifies best practices to manage digital content, develop digital fluency, and reduce content management frustrations.
- Enables students to focus more time on essay structure, logic, and quality improvements such as style and eloquence for their readers.
- Presents concepts and strategies for collaborative writing projects.
- Accelerates learning grammar and style rules using AI-based refinement tools—students more quickly internalize techniques that produce superior written products.
- Includes a list of curated resources such as advanced analysis tools to assess readability, content development, grammar and refinement aids, automated thesis and bibliography generators, and paraphrasing and summarizing apps.
Developed over five years with student input, Writing in Our Digital World provides a solid foundation for students to learn durable skills for their careers and personal writing projects.
Preface
Overview
Key Points
Resources
What You Need to Know
The Editorial Process in a Digital World
Word Processing
Microsoft Word
Visuals
Citations, References, and Footnotes
Workflow—How to Manage Your Work
Version Control—An Unavoidable Evil
Collaborative Writing—A Brief Overview
What Does Collaboration Mean?
A Few Guideposts to Follow for Digital Collaboration
How AI-powered Writing Aids Can Help You Write Better
Sources Consulted
A List of Helpful Online Resources for Writing and More
Ed Cuoco is an adjunct faculty member at Bunker Hill Community College and Wenworth Institute of Technology. He has a B.A. in English and an M.S. in management and marketing. He has worked in high-technology and start-up companies for over thirty years as an individual contributor, cofounder, manager, and executive.
For the last decade, in addition to teaching and consulting, he has focused on how to enhance writing skills for community college and first-year college students by exploring advanced computer-aided support tools and best practices in professional and academic environments.
Students thoughts on Writing in Our Digital World: A Writing Guide for a New Era:
87.5% say Writing in Our Digital World helped them produce higher-quality essays.
75% say Writing in Our Digital World has enabled them to create a work environment on their computers to tackle a writing assignment more confidently.
100% say Writing in Our Digital World gave them a basic or some degree of understanding of how they can take advantage of digital tools to improve their writing.
Students found the sections on “Word Processing” and “Intro to AI Writing Aides” most helpful.
Several emails from students note:
“It was a very interesting class, and I learned so much.”
“ENG-111 reminded me that writing is still one of my favorite hobbies.”
“I do believe that I have improved my writing and your classes also made me more interested on reading as well.”
Writing in Our Digital World encourages students to fashion their own computer-based writing environments to create and manage digital writing projects.
Designed to complement traditional writing curricula, this writing guide:
- Fosters proficiency in digital writing, a clear advantage in business and professions.
- Introduces foundation concepts and techniques for perfecting digital writing projects.
- Identifies best practices to manage digital content, develop digital fluency, and reduce content management frustrations.
- Enables students to focus more time on essay structure, logic, and quality improvements such as style and eloquence for their readers.
- Presents concepts and strategies for collaborative writing projects.
- Accelerates learning grammar and style rules using AI-based refinement tools—students more quickly internalize techniques that produce superior written products.
- Includes a list of curated resources such as advanced analysis tools to assess readability, content development, grammar and refinement aids, automated thesis and bibliography generators, and paraphrasing and summarizing apps.
Developed over five years with student input, Writing in Our Digital World provides a solid foundation for students to learn durable skills for their careers and personal writing projects.
Preface
Overview
Key Points
Resources
What You Need to Know
The Editorial Process in a Digital World
Word Processing
Microsoft Word
Visuals
Citations, References, and Footnotes
Workflow—How to Manage Your Work
Version Control—An Unavoidable Evil
Collaborative Writing—A Brief Overview
What Does Collaboration Mean?
A Few Guideposts to Follow for Digital Collaboration
How AI-powered Writing Aids Can Help You Write Better
Sources Consulted
A List of Helpful Online Resources for Writing and More
Ed Cuoco is an adjunct faculty member at Bunker Hill Community College and Wenworth Institute of Technology. He has a B.A. in English and an M.S. in management and marketing. He has worked in high-technology and start-up companies for over thirty years as an individual contributor, cofounder, manager, and executive.
For the last decade, in addition to teaching and consulting, he has focused on how to enhance writing skills for community college and first-year college students by exploring advanced computer-aided support tools and best practices in professional and academic environments.
Students thoughts on Writing in Our Digital World: A Writing Guide for a New Era:
87.5% say Writing in Our Digital World helped them produce higher-quality essays.
75% say Writing in Our Digital World has enabled them to create a work environment on their computers to tackle a writing assignment more confidently.
100% say Writing in Our Digital World gave them a basic or some degree of understanding of how they can take advantage of digital tools to improve their writing.
Students found the sections on “Word Processing” and “Intro to AI Writing Aides” most helpful.
Several emails from students note:
“It was a very interesting class, and I learned so much.”
“ENG-111 reminded me that writing is still one of my favorite hobbies.”
“I do believe that I have improved my writing and your classes also made me more interested on reading as well.”