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Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia
Robert E. Cummings
$24.99

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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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Isaac Asimov: Foundation series, Isaac Asimov's Robot Series, Isaac Asimov's Galactic Empire series, Lucky Starr series, Norby, Science fiction (Wikipedia Articles) [please check this book out
$33.10

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Isaac Asimov. Foundation series, Isaac Asimov's Robot Series, Isaac Asimov's Galactic Empire series, Lucky Starr series, Norby, Science fiction

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The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia   [WIKIPEDIA REVOLUTION] [Hardcover]
Andrew(Author) Lih
$29.95

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Reliability of Wikipedia: Reliability of Wikipedia. History of Wikipedia, WikiScanner, English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia
$39.21

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Reliability of Wikipedia. History of Wikipedia, WikiScanner, English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia

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Creating High-Quality Products in Open Content Virtual Communities - Exploring Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Kevin Carillo
$53.62

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The open content movement is enabling the advent of a major turn in information- based products through the enormous potential of collective intelligence. The Linux operating system, the Firefox internet browser, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the Public Library of Science, or the MIT's Open- CourseWare project, are all striking successes. What are the factors that contribute to such high-quality products in open content practices? This study uses a group perspective to examine the group factors that lead to high-quality products in open content communities. A theoretical model is developed, based on the Input-Process-Output approach of group research in social psychology and on the Time, Interaction, and Performance Theory proposed by McGrath (1991). A quantitative study of the detailed activity logs of Wikipedia was designed and tested. The analysis should help to answer the questions: - Can a group perspective provide valuable insights in explaining the success of open content projects? What makes open content practices so different from other types of practices? The book is addressed to professionals whose field is related to information-based products, open content and open source communities. It is also directed towards researchers in Business Administration and Social Psychology.

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Qimiao de Guanghedian de Shijie (Chinese Edition) (Wikipedia Science and Technology Students Pinyin Series)
Zhejiang Children's Publishing House
$9.00

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Qimiao de Guanghedian de Shijie. 1997 paperback published by Zhejiang Children's Publishing House. Text in Chinese and Pinyin. Black-and-white illustrations.

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Wikipedia und ihre Nutzer
Meike Jaschniok
$35.64

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The Skills CIOs Really Want From Their IT Staffs / CRM 2.0: Web 2.0 Capabilities Enable a Level of Customer Engagement That Until Now Hasn't Been Possible - or Expected / The CIA Has Created Its Own Spy Version of Wikipedia (eWeek, Volume 25, Number 19, June 16, 2008)
$9.95

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Introduction to Paleoanthropology: as appears on Wikibooks, a project of Wikipedia
David Speakman
$25.45

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This volume offers a comprehensive introduction to Paleoanthropology.
Introduction to Paleoanthropology is one of the very few Wikibooks to gain the coveted "Featured Books" rating by the administrators of Wikibooks, a project of Wikipedia, attesting to its highly developed and comprehensive nature.

This book can be used as an excellent High School or College level textbook, reference work, and/or a volume for general reading and learning.

Wikibooks is a collaborative book authoring website, where users from all over the world work together to write textbooks and other types of instructional books on many topics. It is a Wikimedia project, operated by the same group of people who run Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikibooks went online on 10 July 2003. Wikibooks is a collection of open-content textbooks. Wikipedia attracts 683 million visitors annually reading over 10 million articles in 253 languages, comprising a combined total of over 1.74 billion words for all Wikipedias. The English Wikipedia edition passed the 2,000,000- article mark on September 9, 2007, and as of May 31, 2008 it had over 2,396,000 articles consisting of over 1,034,000,000 words.
This volume is published by Seven Treasures Publications, an independent book publisher unaffiliated with the Wikipedia Foundation, under the terms of the GNU license.

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On the net: Wikipedia: a multilingual treasure trove.: An article from: Language, Learning & Technology
Robert Ponterio
$5.95

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This digital document is an article from Language, Learning & Technology, published by University of Hawaii, National Foreign Language Resource Center on May 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1831 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: On the net: Wikipedia: a multilingual treasure trove.
Author: Jean W. LeLoup
Publication: Language, Learning & Technology (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2006
Publisher: University of Hawaii, National Foreign Language Resource Center
Volume: 10 Issue: 2 Page: 4(4)

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