Week 4 Questions for digital writing paper.
Questions
for digital writing paper.
5. What are the things that you should take into consideration to employ digital writing for teaching academic writing?
1.
What are the problems struggling writers have in writing classes?
- Teacher's control of the genre and topic.
- These learners usually have poor handwriting (or has difficulty to write) and writes slowly or illegibly.
- They also have problems in expressing their idea through composition and sometimes have trouble communication and understanding their teachers and peers during discussion in the classroom.
2. What does 'digital writing' refer to?
The term digital writing is used to define a
change in the writing environment where writing is produced on the computer,
mobile phone, and tablet, and then distributed via Internet networks.
3. What are the three digital writing tools?
Give brief descriptions?
·
Blogs
A blog is a discussion,
informational article or personal journal, published on the World Wide Web,
which is often frequently updated. The entries (also called posts) are usually
displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent entry appearing first).
·
Instant Messaging (IM) -
MSN, Line, Twitter, Skype, chat-room
Instant Messaging (IM)
is a form of Internet-based, real time text communication between users on the
same system.
· A
social network site (SNS)
A social network
site (SNS) is a website or an online service platform in which people
share interest, create a public or semi-public profile, and interact with other
users.
4. How has digital writing enhanced the
teaching of writing?
First,
the anonymity feature of digital writing enhances a peer feedback as students
feel less threatened when giving or receiving feedback.
Second, the emulate real-time communication is perceived as
advantageous since learner can see what their partners intend to communicate
through the typed text.
Third, digital writing promotes learners’ equity in terms of
interaction. This feature reduced teachers’ authority, and increases
student-centered learning,
Finally, multimedia writing environment can capture learners’
attention and interest and suits Learners’ different learning styles.
5. What are the things that you should take into consideration to employ digital writing for teaching academic writing?
- The symbolic abbreviations
- Exaggerated or misplaced
- Inappropriate capitalization and punctuation
- Emoticons
6. Which
activity do you like most? Why?
My favorite activity is Peer feedback, because
it provides students opportunities to practice analytical skills and explore to
new ideas. This benefits both reviewers and the reviewees.
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