Document Type
Report
Publication Date
2008
Keywords
Ethnographic writing research, Student literacy, Digital writing
Abstract
Research Question:
Our research question had three components:
- What is the effect of teaching the production of online texts?
- What is the effect of teaching the analysis of digital literacies?
- How do students assess the effect of studying self-sponsored digital literacies?
Method: Our methodology was a qualitative study using ethnographic techniques, or more specifically, ethnographic writing research. Wendy Bishop explains this research methodology (Bishop, 1999).While ethnography is a phenomenological method of participating in a culture and giving an account of it as experienced by native members, ethnographic writing research is a less intensive study of the literacy practices of particular groups, often but not necessarily associated with teacher-research. In order to examine the interface between and among personal, public, and academic writing, our research documents how students take up these questions in an upper-level writing studies course. Therefore, we used the regular curriculum of English 301: the writing students did both online and in print, such as public blogs on the internet; the course Blackboard site; the mid-term paper; class discussion; and a survey after the work was completed.
Recommended Citation
McDonald, Catherine and Hill, Amanda, "Student Literacy and the Effect of Digital Writing" (2008). Writing Research Fellows. 22.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/wis_writingresearchfellows/22
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Ethnology; Education--Data processing; Computer literacy
Genre/Form
reports
Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf