Conference paper
Multi-path and networked: Possible futures for academic writing
Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Conference, pp.669-678
Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) Conference: Balance, Fidelity, Mobility: Maintaining the Momentum, 22nd (Brisbane, Australia, 04-Dec-2005–07-Dec-2005)
Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (A S C I L I T E)
2005
Abstract
Whether we like it or not, students are using a range of media tools in their daily lives that do not strike the average humanities academic as the sort of tool with which to write a paper to answer assessment requirements. Our challenge is to find ways for students to harness these literacies to compose an essay that contains the necessary rigour for academic purposes. In fact, there are possibilities for enhancing the academic project through use of media tools. To prepare ourselves for the multi-linear multi-media academic paper of the future the first priority is not learning software or gadgets, its rethinking the structures of meaning-making used to write essays so they can bring together and utilise the enhanced capacities of media collection (like cell phones and a cell phone camera). This paper looks at visual meaning-making and discusses, with examples, how to approach 'designing' a multi-lineal essay.
Details
- Title
- Multi-path and networked: Possible futures for academic writing
- Authors
- Margaret Turner (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Publication details
- Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Conference, pp.669-678
- Conference details
- Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) Conference: Balance, Fidelity, Mobility: Maintaining the Momentum, 22nd (Brisbane, Australia, 04-Dec-2005–07-Dec-2005)
- Publisher
- Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (A S C I L I T E)
- Date published
- 2005
- ISBN
- 0975709313
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2005 Margaret Turner. Reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Any other usage is prohibited without the express permission of the authors.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449045102621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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