Typical composition courses have students create documents that are inherently print-centric, designed for the page regardless of whether that physical form is necessary or appropriate. Writing for electronic environments uses the hyperlink as an essential rhetorical element of communication, and traditional documents can easily be enhanced with hyperlinks using available, familiar tools. This presentation advocates for the incorporation of hyperlinks into composition assignments and instruction.

1. Text
The Missing Link: Interventions for
Enhancing Traditional Student Composition
Printed text: http://bit.ly/cwcon15-missing-link
Chris Friend
Saint Leo University
Hybrid Pedagogy
@chris_friend
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2. = 100 students

3. Rhetoric
Multimodality
Social Media
Game Theory
Publication
Literacies
Professional Development
Mentoring
Civic Engagement
Ecologies
Agency
Primary Research

4. The Modes.

5. Problem 1:
Students don’t need to be
taught what our outdated
curriculum teaches.
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6. Problem 2:
Our students lack
flexible technoliteracies.
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7. Problem 3:
Teaching institutions are
underrepresented in
conferences & literature.
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Consider student experience
& lack of situated disciplinary
knowledge

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Hyperlinks have rhetorical implications

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Support students:
Explicitly teach hyperlinks

11. Photo by Brooke Hoyer CC BY
Support teaching institutions:
Collaborate to help implement
current practices with limited
resources.

12. Chris Friend
Saint Leo University
Hybrid Pedagogy
@chris_friend
Thank you.