The Instructor's Resource Manual (available through the “Resources” panel)

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Composing Literacy

M ore people are writing today than ever before, and many are switching comfortably from one genre or medium to another — from tweeting to blogging to creating multimedia Web pages. Learning to be effective as a writer is a continuous process as you find yourself in new writing situations using new technologies and trying to anticipate the concerns of different audiences. “The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write,” futurist Alvin Toffler predicted, “but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”