Based on data gathered via survey questionnaire and follow up in-class discussion, the paper explores the ways undergraduate students think of themselves as writers and readers. Data drawn from a pilot survey in 2007 and a second in 2009 provides the impetus for discussion of issues of literacy and identity in a digital world. Of interest is 1) what first-year students anticipate they need to do and know, and 2) how final-year students reflect on what they have learnt in terms of academic literacies and related skills. A key issue is the way students bring a particular identity as readers and writers to university, and how this is transformed and re-inscribed through their studies. The importance of teaching for the development of rhetorical dexterity in a digital environment is highlighted because students" digital literacy is a core element in their literacy identity. The paper also asks "how far should educators go in working into the space of digital literacies?"
In this paper, we explore issues of design, sequence and theoretical bases for the BA (Professional Writing and Communication). In the first part of this paper we discuss the interdisciplinary frame within which this award is situated and its particular foundation in the ethnography of communication and rhetoric, defined by Andrews (1992) as concerned with ‘the arts of discourse and with context’. We describe different aspects of the degree program and reflect on the issues involved in developing the undergraduate learning experience offered to professional writing students. We offer examples of particular activities from two subjects with reference to student work.
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