Postgraduate CUR-MIC505-2021

Writing on the Web

Evolve your writing from the page to the screen. Publish polished pieces for social media and the web. Explore emerging changes in the language and structure of the written realm of the digital domain. Get critical about credibility and assess authority.

Duration

13 weeks

Study method

100% Online

Available loans

FEE-HELP

Assessments

100% online

Prior study

Not required

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Subject details

What you'll learn

At the completion of this subject students will be able to:

use relevant expertise in writing and presenting information publicly across multiple internet mediated platforms
analyse the Internet's various contexts and cultures for, and channels of, communication that influence writing and publishing
present arguments concerning the importance of credibility, authority and utility in creating and assessing internet writing
research and critically analyse specific features of the Internet as a medium for effective writing and publishing.

Topics covered

- Introduction: Writing and Technology
- Informing and Framing your Writing
- Language, Code and Expression
- Re-wiring Hypertext: Writing for Web2.0
- Authorship and Personal Interest Blogs
- Orwell
- Collaborative Writing
- Comment Culture and The Attention Economy
- Tweeting and Texting
- Online Journalism
- E-Literature, E-Fiction, E-Books
- Publishing Online: The Open Access Movement

Entry requirements

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

CUR-WEB206-Writing on the Web

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Description

Writing is a technology. Yet there is little discussion of writing on the web. From Facebook updates, to tweeting, blogging, comment culture, online journalism, and the truncation of language via texting, writing remains dominant in digitisation.

This subject offers you a practically oriented, conceptually-based approach by which you can become more effective in written publishing via digital and social media. It considers how writing can accommodate the re-structured reading that comes from scrolling down, rather than turning a page, together with the non-linear flow that results from hyperlinking. In this subject, students engage in practical online writing tasks, while also gaining a clear understanding of how writing has evolved through digital forms of publishing. Key ideas relating to relevance, credibility, authority and utility in writing for digital and social media are also discussed.

Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.

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Assessments