Composed of readings on a broad range of topics and genres (and including alternative readings available on a World Wide Web site connected to the book), this text provides writing assignments, including writing-to-learn and writing-to-communicate assignments to provide practice in crafting reflective pieces; it also includes analyses of issues, discourse, research proposals and multimedia projects and other kinds of electronic writing for on-line discussion groups. The aim of the book is to help readers become critical thinkers about technology, not simply consumers of technology.