Boles+and+Newmark.+Xchanges+Journal-+Web+Journal+as+the+Writing+Classroom

=Boles, Jacoby and Julianna Newmark. "//Xchanges Journal-// Web Journal as the Writing Classroom: On Building an Academic Web Journal in a Collaborative Classroom."= [|Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy// 16.1 - Fall 2011. Web.]

**Abstract**
This website is the creation of a student of mine, Jacoby Boles, who is the Editorial Assistant for the e-journal Xchanges, of which I am editor. Jacoby reflects, via this site, on his experiences as a member of the Technical Communication 371 "Publications Management" course at New Mexico Tech. TC 371, in Fall 2010, was a course explicitly designed to engage students with a unique "client project," the production of an issue of the online journal Xchanges.

Argument
The purpose of this article is to provide commentary on a course (Technical Communications 371). The author of this articles tries to gain insight on how efficient academic journals are for students. The author proves that by engaging in hands on work, students have a better understanding of the product at hand. The product used in this article is a journal, either scientific or literature. The author collects quotes from students to prove his argument and demonstrates how much more efficient students learn when they have to actually create the product rather than just using it. Students gain a better appreciation not only for the class, but for the work that goes behind making the product.

Key Passages
"...journals are often accessed only out of necessity and only to find the information that students already have a need for..." ([|Prior Knowledge)]

"Not only was our project a scholarly e-journal housed within a Technical Communication class, it was the practice of communicating between ourselves and to our audience" ([|Making the Issue).]

"So in part our responsibility as project managers became managing our responses to questions of the journal’s place within the field. In our collective role as producers of the journal, we became intimately concerned with the success and longevity of our work" ([|Managing the Project]).

"By shifting the emphasis of a traditional writing classroom from producing texts that have a limited audience into group writing project(s) that have many audiences, the students perceive gains outside of 'just writing'" ([|Beyond the Journal]).

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