Online Writing
LPW604
Overview
To enrol in this unit, you must be accepted into a course from the provider.
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Level of study: What does Postgraduate mean?
Postgraduate
EFTSL: What does EFTSL mean?
0.125
Delivery Method: What does delivery method mean?
Fully Online
Prerequisites: What are the prerequisites?
Duration:
13 weeks
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Domestic student fee:
$1,750.00 (AUD)
International student fee:
$1,975.00 (AUD)
Description
Investigate current and evolving digital media platforms and the issues which writers across all genres must consider when writing ‘cybertexts’. In this unit, you will consider how textual and design elements can be used to create materials for digital formats. This units allows you to work practically, by creating your own online writing project; and theoretically, by encountering the principles informing digital literacy, gaming, new textual discourses, and postmodern approaches to narrative and form.
Please note: Assessment values are indicative only; details will be advised at the start of the unit.
Enrolment Restriction
In order to enrol in this unit, you must be accepted into one of the following courses:
If you wish to seek approval to enrol in this unit without being accepted in a course, please contact OUA regarding the process.
Prerequisites
Mandatory prerequisites
You must have successfully completed the following unit(s) before starting this unit:
- LPW500 — Critical Friends: The Real and Virtual Support of Writers
If you have completed equivalent study at another university, please contact a Student Advisor for advice.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
• Establish a relevant project to develop as online writers and to bring their work to publication stage;
• Tease out how they might best understand, cognitively map, share and enrich their creation, use, analyses and discussion of cybertexts;
• Demonstrate an understanding of underlying cultural and critical theory;
• Demonstrate an understanding of electronic discourses and textuality;
• Illustrate ways of critiquing interactive multimedia, social networking and the contemporary implications of the WWW.
• Apply a critical framework through which to discuss the new electronic textualities delivered by interactive multimedia;
• Understand elements of software design and construction, in considering how it could be used to create materials which will enhance the expression and communication through electronically presented formats;
• Develop insights into industry standards for the development and implementation of a multimedia project;
• Understand and utilise the contemporary practices and implications of World Wide Web
Topics
This unit addresses the following topics.
| Number | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Writing and Designing for Digital Technologies |
| 2 | Web 2.0 and social networking |
| 3 | The New Enchantment: From Fairytales to Cybertexts |
| 4 | New Media Publishing |
| 5 | Creative commons and copyright |
| 6 | Digital literacy |
| 7 | Theories of narrative in the electronic era |
| 8 | Postmodern Digital Theories - New cultural formations |
| 9 | Knowledge management |
| 10 | Immersion and Gaming |
Study Resources
This unit is delivered using the following methods and materials:
Print based materials
- Welcome Letter
Online materials
- Printable format materials
Textbook information for this unit is currently being updated and will be available soon. Please check back regularly for updates. Alternatively, visit the Unibooks website and enter the unit details to search for available textbooks.
Relevant Courses
This unit is a core requirement in the following courses:
- Graduate Diploma of Arts in Writing, Swinburne University of Tnlgy
- Master of Arts (Writing), Swinburne University of Tnlgy
This unit may be eligible for credit towards other courses:
- Many undergraduate courses on offer through OUA include 'open elective' where any OUA unit can be credited to the course. You need to check the Award Requirements on the course page for the number of allowed open electives and any level limitations.
- In other cases, the content of this unit might be relevant to a course on offer through OUA or elsewhere. In order to receive credit for this unit in the course you will need to supply the provider institution with a copy of the Unit Profile in the approved format, which you can download here. Note that the Unit Profile is set at the start of the year, and if textbooks change this may not match the Unibooks textbook list.
