Eighth graders, gender, and online publishing: A story of teacher and student collaboration

Computers and Composition

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 161-175

  Grabill, Patricia J ^a   Grabill, Jeffrey T ^b  

^a Fall Creek Valley Middle School   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Computer literacy; Gender; Internet; Language arts; Middle school; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043230005     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S8755-4615(00)00027-X     Document Type: Article

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