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Shaping Multilingual Identity: Translanguaging Practices Through Digital Storytelling Workshop

Activities, digital literacy, identity, narrative and storytelling, social media, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Alexandra Krasova Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This workshop was initially designed for undergraduate multilingual students participating in my dissertation study. My participants had some background experience in creating digital stories for social media, such as TikTok or Instagram. However, digital storytelling with integrated translanguaging practices for academic purposes was a new and unique […]

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Social Media as a Space for Today’s Technical Communication Work

digital literacy, professional writing, social media, technical writing, Volume 6, writing technologies /

Clinton R. Lanier Volume 6 Chapter Description This chapter outlines the key phases of presentation development and delivery, and how best to go about them, with reference to theory andpractice from the disciplines of technical communication and information design. While the purpose of this chapter is to prepare you for workplace presentations, some of the

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Read the Room! Navigating Social Contexts and Written Texts

genre and discourse community, linguistic difference, Public Writing, social media, writing technologies /

Sarah Seeley, Kelly Xu, & Matthew Chenn Melzer Volume 4 Chapter Description This chapter is a collaboration between a professor (Sarah Seeley) and two former students (Kelly Xu and Matthew Chen). We begin with a discussion of a key concept: the discourse community. In doing so, we illustrate why it is necessary to examine the

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Understanding and Maintaining Your Privacy When Writing with Digital Technologies

drafting and revising, social media, volume 4, writing technologies /

Lindsey C. Kim Volume 4 Chapter Description As our students utilize more networked technologies in their writing, it has become critical that both students and teachers understand the role privacy plays in their digital activity. This chapter aims to help students understand why privacy is an important concept to consider when writing online and to

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Four Things Social Media Can Teach You about College Writing—and One Thing It Can’t

drafting and revising, rhetorical appeals and argument, social media, Style, visual/multimodal rhetorics, volume 4, writing technologies /

Ann N. Amicucci Volume 4 Chapter Description Many students are frequent users of social media, and it’s important to recognize the rich rhetorical activity that happens on apps like Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok. This chapter teaches students how to take rhetorical moves they make on social media and mimic these moves in academic writing,

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