(Week 4) Digital Writing

Questions from “Digital Writing” paper. According to the article.

 1. What are the problems struggling writers have in writing classes? 

❤️  The problems struggling writers have in writing classes are often less motivated to write and fail to organize their ideas. They also have problems in expressing their idea through composition and sometime have trouble communicating and understanding their teachers and peers during discussion in the classroom

 2. What does 'digital writing' refer to? 

💙 It refers to the different mediums on the Internet such as email, Instant Messaging, text messaging, Twitter, Line, Facebook, and blogs using different devices such as computers, mobile phones, and tablets.

 3. What are the three digital writing tools? Give brief descriptions? 

          💚 Blogs

          Many people use blogs as a medium to update journals or post their experience to broaden their horizons and to fulfill their needs and interests because blogs provide opportunities, inspirations and motivations for personal writing.

          💚 Instant Messaging (IM)

          Instant Messaging promotes negotiation of meaning, reduces anxiety, encourages self-repair, and enhances spelling performances in young adult L2 learner as well as motivation and attitude in L2 learning.

          💚 Social Network Site (SNS)

          The use of SNSs in education and language instruction has been prominent because there were the positive effect of SNSs on EFL learners’ English grammar and writing and they helped to have improvement in their writing abilities, including paragraph organization, grammar vocabulary and spelling.

           
 4. How has digital writing enhanced the teaching of writing? 

          💛 First, many digital writing applications offer an anonymity feature.

          💛 Second, in digital writing, learners actually type out what they want to communicate to the group or reader.

          💛 Third, digital writing promotes learners' equity in terms of interaction.

 5. What are the things that you should take into consideration to employ digital writing for teaching academic writing? 

💜 I think shorthand and emoticons because it may yield negative impact to many teen users. In particular, digital writing discourse is an informal, speaking style of language which is fill of shorthand, abbreviations, and emoticons. They should be aware that this digital writing discourse, shorthand, abbreviations and emoticons make no sense outside of the digital writing discourse communication. Thus, they should not use the digital writing discourse in academic writing discourse.

 6. Which activity do you like most? Why? 

❤️ I like Little Reporter because this activity, students have to act as reporter for a school newspaper. Students have to search the information first so act as reporter. It helps students practice English grammar, writing and speaking because the topic can be varied to children’s interests.