Teaching writing online: Two case studies

Increasingly over the past decade, online learning has received growing attention in the academy. This paper describes the experiences of two instructors at the same institution with the teaching of writing online: one using hybrid (blended) instruction to “flip” the classroom to teach a service course on technical writing to Engineering students with low TOEFL scores; the other is an asynchronously online undergraduate elective course intended for majors in Education and other Social Sciences who might be considering careers in training, employee communication, technical communication, and related fields.