Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Face-to-Face Courses Are Superior to Online Courses" by Tiffany Bourelle and Andy Bourelle (@AndrewBourelle). It's a chapter first published in Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Keywords: asynchronous methods, face-to-face instruction (f2f), MOOCs, multimodal composition, online writing instruction (OWI), synchronous methods

Tiffany Bourelle is an associate professor of English at the University of New Mexico, where she teaches classes in online and multimodal pedagogies and administers eComp, the department's first-year online writing program. She is the coauthor of the books Teaching Writing in the 21st Century and Administering Writing Programs in the 21st Century, as well as co-editor of the anthology Women's Professional Lives in Rhetoric and Composition: Choice, Chance, and Serendipity. Her scholarly articles have been published in Computers and Composition, Kairos, Technical Communication Quarterly, WPA: Writing Program Administration, and other journals and anthologies. (2022 bio)

Andrew Bourelle is an associate professor of English at the University of New Mexico, where he teaches classes in composition, creative writing, professional and technical writing, and rhetoric. He is the author of the novels 48 Hours to Kill and Heavy Metal. His scholarly articles have appeared in Communication Design Quarterly, Composition Forum, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Journal of Teaching Writing, and other publications. (2022 bio)

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