Swinburne University of Technology - Melbourne Australia
Future Students - Courses
Duration
Contact Hours
Campus
Prerequisite
Corequisite
12 weeks or equivalent
3 Hours per Week
Lilydale
LPW600 Reading and Writing Reading and Writing or equivalent
Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points
A unit in the Graduate Diploma of Arts (Writing) and Master of Arts (Writing)
This unit provides students with the tools to write for the electronic media, as well as an understanding of how to best apply them. This unit addresses issues relevant to researchers, business managers, teachers and/or creative writers all of whom, in the emergent electronic culture, act as change agents in the movement from print to cybertexts. This unit: Establishes a relevant project to develop students as online writers and to bring their work to publication stage Teases out how they might best understand, cognitively map, share and enrich their creation, use, analyses and discussion of cybertexts Develops an understanding of underlying cultural and critical theory Develops an understanding of electronic discourse and textuality Establishes ways of critiquing interactive multimedia and the WWW Develops the appropriate critical framework through which to discuss the new electronic textualities delivered by interactive multimedia Understands what software can do without whilst considering how it could be used to create materials which will enhance the transformation of electronically presented information into knowledge Establishes and articulates criteria which might be shared for discussion, evaluation, production and/or use of Interactive multimedia
This unit provides students with the tools to write for the electronic media, as well as an understanding of how to best apply them. This unit addresses issues relevant to researchers, business managers, teachers and/or creative writers all of whom, in the emergent electronic culture, act as change agents in the movement from print to cybertexts. This unit:
Virtual lectures, virtual tutorials, electronic media, reading and practical exercises and e-tutors, e-mentors and e-peer groups.
Online Writing Project 60%, Participation in weekly Discussion Threads 40%
Electronic Delivery of Curriculum: Preproduction of Cyberscripts The Computer and Social Interactions Online Education Utilising the cybertext: Turning Cyberinformation into eKnowledge eBusiness: The Networked Economy Developing Online Relationships for Effective Learning Playing for Keeps: Immersing Yourself in Virtual Worlds Narratives and Stories Using a Hyperdiary
Arnold, J. 2007 Practice Led Research: A dynamic way to knowledge, Rock View Press: Melbourne. Campbell, K. 2004, E-ffective Writing For E-Learning Environments. Hershey, PA : Idea Group. Craig, R. 2005, Online Journalism : Reporting, Writing and Editing For New Media. Belmont, Calif.: Thomson. Wadsworth. Ohi, D. R. 2001, Writer’s Online Marketplace: How and Where to Get Published Online, New York: Writer’s Digest Books. The Macquarie Dictionary. The Macquarie Thesaurus. The Macquarie website: http://www.macnet.mq.edu.au Redish, J. 2007, Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works (Interactive Technologies), San Francisco: Morgan Kaufman. Ross, T. and Ross, M. 2002, Complete Guide to Self Publishing. Boston: F. & W. Publications Sammons, M. 1999, The Internet Writer’s Handbook, New York: Allyn and Bacon. Strunk, W, The Elements of Style (any recent edition) Tannebaum R.S. 1999, Theoretical Foundations of Multimedia, Computer Science Press, New York. The following hyperlinks: Culture Machine: http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/ St Clair, Robert, 2000, Visual Metaphor, Cultural Knowledge, and the New Rhetoric. http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/LIB/LIB8.html The Media in Transition: http://web.mit.edu/m-i-t/articles/index.html Visual Rhetoric: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/dblakesley/visual/ Voice of the Shuttle: http://vos.ucsb.edu/ Weekly hypertext weblinks.
