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Online Writing
Postgraduate | SWI-PWR70002 | 2018
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Enter the digital realm and face the issues, genres and audiences the online writer must consider.Look at how writing practices differ in the online space. Note principles that underpin digital literacy. Implement your own online writing project.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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Online Writing
About this subject
After successfully completing this subject, students will be able to:
- Describe and critically evaluate the contemporary debates, writing practices, platforms, and trends in online disdegree and textuality
- Demonstrate practical writing skills for online and digital platforms
- Generate a mind map, plan, research, and produce a piece of writing about or utilising online textuality.
- What is online writing?
- Writing and Designing for Digital Media
- Narrative structure for online and digital stories
- Writing for specific platforms (eg various social and new media platforms)
- Copyright, Ownership, and authorship
- Theorising online spaces
This subject investigates current and evolving digital media platforms and the issues which writers across all genres must consider when writing online. In this subject, you will consider how textual and design elements can be used to create materials for digital formats. This subjects 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 subject.
- Online Discussion (60-70%)
- Assignments (30-40%)
For textbook details check your university's handbook, website or learning management system (LMS).
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Prior study
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
one of
- SWI-PWR60001-Critical Friends: The Real and Virtual Support of Writers
SWI-LPW500 (Not currently available)
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:
SWI-LPW604 (Not currently available)
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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Student feedback
7 student respondents between 17 July - 4 Dec 2023.
85%of students felt the study load was manageable
85%of students felt this subject helped them gain relevant skills