Creating Texts in the Digital Age

This subject draws on current educational theories, debates, policies and practices to critically analyse how text creation practices achieve social purposes. Social semiotics, text function and form, functional linguistics, and criticality will frame the subject. Participants will reflect on the role of text creation in their lives. They will broaden their text creation experiences, as they plan, draft, and craft texts, and act upon feedback. The text creation process will support participants to reflect on the relationship between text and identity and analyse the teacher/writer identity. Students will investigate different contexts for text creation when exploring written, audio, visual, and multimodal texts. They will examine plurilingual writing, writing for critical purposes, writing with generative AI and First Nations' text creation. The rapidly and expanding field(s) of technology and its relationship to text will be critically examined, with particular emphasis on educational contexts. Participants will develop and apply a metalanguage of writing to examine the developmental stages of writing and to critique pedagogical models, frameworks and writing assessments.