Electronic Communities in Writing Instruction:
A Beginners Guide

Intro

Teachers

Students

History

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Dialogue Journals

Dialogue Journals are an interactive journaing technique in which students exchange and respond to each other in their (non-electronic) journals. This seems to be the "pen and paper" version of what some teachers do with class email listervs and web bulletin boards.

Kreeft, Joy. "Why Not Really Communicate? In Dialogue Journals." Watesol Working Papers. Fall-Win 1983-84: 1-13. ED240884

Meloni, Christine F. "What Do University EFL Students Write about in Dialogue
Journals?" Watesol Working Papers. Fall-Win 1983-84: 14-20. ED240885

Newman, Judith M. "Sharing Journals: Conversational Mirrors for Seeing
Ourselves as Learners, Writers, and Teachers." English Education. 20.3 Oct 1988: 134-56.

Staton, Jana. "Dialogue Journals: A New Tool for Teaching
Communication." 1983. ED227701

Staton, Jana, et al. "Analysis of Dialogue Journal Writing as a Communicative
Event." Final Report. Volume I. Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC.
February 1, 1982. ED214196

Staton, Jana, et al. "Analysis of Dialogue Journal Writing as a Communicative
Event." Final Report. Volume II. Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. February 1, 1982. ED214197

Roe, Mary F. Stallman, Anne C. "A Comparative Study of Dialogue and Response Journals." Teaching & Teacher Education. 10.6 Nov 1994: 579-88 .

Yeoman, Elizabeth."'Sam's Cafe': A Case Study of Computer Conferencing as a Medium for Collective Journal Writing." Canadian Journal of Educational Communication. 24.3 Win 1995: 209-25.