Kaufer Article on Classroom Salon among Top Downloads for 2011 Journal of Business and Technical Communication

An article co-written by English Professor David Kaufer and his CMU research collaborators Ananda Gunawardena (Computer Science), Aaron Tan (CS), and Alexander Cheek (Design) was one of the top downloaded articles in the Journal of Business and Technical Communication in 2011. The article introduced Classroom Salon, a social networking application for documents that allows students to form online communities and receive feedback from classmates and instructors.  The full citation is:
 
Kaufer, David, Ananda Gunawardena, Aaron Tan, and Alexander Cheek. "Bringing Social Media to the Writing Classroom: Classroom Salon." Journal of Business and Technical Communication 25 (2011).

Read "Bringing Social Media to the Writing Classroom: Classroom Salon" online [.pdf]

For more information on Classroom Salon:

http://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/english/research/classroom_salon.html