Using the Digital Writer/Reader

Relationship to Teach Writing as a

Social Act

DANAH HASHEM
MA ENGLISH/MA TEACHING CANDIDATE
SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY

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21st Century Literacies Defined

a collection of cultural and and

communicative practices shared among
members of particular groups.
-National Council of
Teachers of English

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I live in a world of others words.

-Mikhail Bakhtin

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The Conflated Author/Reader Relationship

Author

Reader

Reader and Writer become part of each others

sustaining environment Kenneth Brufee
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Digital Writing Defined

Compositions created with, and

often times for reading and viewing
on, a computer or other device that
is connected to the Internet.
-National Writing Project

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Blog Post Screenshot

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Facebook Post

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Forum Question

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Email Thread

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Traditional Print Text

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Digital Text

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In this new world, it is the readers

who fashion their own knowledge,
from information supplied by
makers of the site.
-Gunther Kress

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Digital Writing Genres Fit for Classroom Use

A Class Blog
Academic Forums
News Article Comment Section
Emails to Politicians or Activists
Twitter
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Digital Writing Is

critical of dominant ideologies

about language that reinforce
existing and often unjust power
structures, which exclude certain
social actors from participating in
communicative exchanges.
-Elizabeth Losh
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The End

THANK YOU

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