…s for a piece of applied writing. Our students might thus adapt their work to a wiki, a basic Web site, a blog, a letter to the editor of the campus or community newspaper, a letter to a campus or government official, a brochure, or some other occasion. Part of the work that the …

… using a search engine at least once per week, varying from Google, Yahoo!, and Wikipedia to other more specialized sites for information.xxxvii The youth we spoke to who were deeply invested in specific media practices often described a period in which they discovered their own …

…es the electromagnetic force. The best description I’ve found so far comes from Wikipedia: viz., photons are ‘chunked ripples in a field, or “excitations”, that “look like” particles’ (Wikipedia s.v.; emphasis added). That is, a photon can be considered as a discretely located (w…