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Writing on the Web
Postgraduate | CUR-MIC505 | 2022
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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.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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Writing on the Web
About this subject
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.
- 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
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.
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- Exercise 1 (25%)
- Exercise 2 (35%)
- Research Essay (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- OUA-PSU-GCE-2022 - Postgraduate Single Subjects
- CUR-MIC-GCE-2022 - Graduate Certificate in Digital and Social Media
- CUR-MIC-MAS-2022 - Master of Digital and Social Media
- CUR-MIC-GDI-2022 - Graduate Diploma in Digital and Social Media
- UNE-PRO-GCE-2022 - Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice
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:
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
PostgraduateOUA-PSU-GCE
PostgraduateCUR-MIC-GCE
PostgraduateCUR-MIC-MAS
PostgraduateCUR-MIC-GDI
PostgraduateUNE-PRO-GCE