Winner of the MLA's Mina P. Shaugnessy Prize for an outstanding
work in the fields of language, culture, literacy, or literature
with strong application to the teaching of English.
Focusing largely on the controversial website Wikipedia, the author
explores the challenges confronting teachers of college writing in
the increasingly electronic and networked writing environments
their students use every day. Rather than praising or condemning
that site for its role as an encyclopedia, Cummings instead sees it
as a site for online collaboration between writers and a way to
garner audience for student writing.
Applying an understanding of Commons-Based Peer Production
theory, as developed by Yochai Benkler, this text is arranged
around the following propositions:
-- Commons-Based Peer Production is a novel economic phenomenon
which informs our current teaching model and describes a method for
making sense of future electronic developments.
-- College writers are motivated to do their best work when they
write for an authentic audience, external to the class.
-- Writing for a networked knowledge community invites students
to participate in making knowledge, rather than only consuming
it.
-- A plan for integrating networked writing for an external
audience helps students understand the transition from high school
to college writing.
-- Allowing students to review and self-select points of entry
into electronic discourse fosters "laziness," or a new work dynamic
where writers seek to better understand their own creativity in
terms of a project's demands.
"Lazy Virtues" offers networked writing assignments to foster
development of student writers by exposing them to the demands of
professional audiences, asking them to identify and assess their
own creative impulses in terms of a project's needs, and removing
the writing teacher from the role of sole audience.
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