A break in the transaction: Examining students' responses to digital texts

Computers and Composition

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 56-73

  Evans, Ellen ^a   Po, Jeanne ^b  

^a SOKA UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital texts; Hyptertext fiction; Millennial generation; Reading hypertext; Rosenblatt; Transactional theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847159816     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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