SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS:
E-MAIL, THE WEB, AND MOOS: DEVELOPING THE WRITING SKILLS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN CYBERSPACE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

• The Program of the Symposium
• The Summaries of the Presentations
  

PART I: INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

• Opening Remarks by Christine Meloni, Symposium Chair
  
• Welcoming Remarks by Donald Lehman, Vice President for Academic Affairs, The George Washington University
  

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PART II: FEATURED SPEAKER

• Cathy Ball, Featured Speaker, "Writing in Public Places"
  

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PART III: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Subject: E-Mail

• Stuart Umpleby, "International Cooperation in Teaching Management Courses: Using Email to Link Student Group Projects in Two Countries"
  
• Ronald Corio and Christine Meloni, "Email Peer Groups: Providing Students with an Audience"
  
• Donald Weasenforth and Sigrun Lucas, "Email and Wordprocessed Texts of Non-native Speakers: Distinguishable Text Types?"
  

Subject: The Web

• Michelina Bonanno, "Surfing the Net: An EFL Course?"
  
• Christine Meloni and Martha Sanchez, "Discovering Washington, DC: A Web-Linked Software Program for EFL Students"
  
• Hildie Block,"The Syllabus as Hypertext: A Tool for Students of Writing"
  
• Edward Dixon, "Building Vocabulary and Developing Writing Skills with Foreign Language Broadcasts and the WWW"
  
• Virginia Montecino,"A Learning Community in Cyberspace: Computer-Mediated Distance Learning"
  
• Harold Smith, "Focal Skills and L2 Acquisition: Writers Do It Better in Cyberspace"
  

Subject: E-Mail and the Web

• Walter Rankin:"The Cyberjournal: Developing Writing, Researching, and Editing Skills through Email and the WEB"
  
• Patrick McGann,"The Internet and Invisibility: Working Class Students at Private Universities"
  

Subject: MOOs

• Jeff Cohen, "Virtual Bodies and Post-Modern Identity Disruptions: Using a MOO to Teach Critical Theory"
  
• Laurie Miller and David Beach, "MOOs AND MUDs and SLA"
  

Proceedings Editors: Christine Meloni and Laurie Miller

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