Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 “I Wrote to Become Part of That Discourse Community” : Developing Writerly Identity and Agency in an Online Writing Course
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'The acute phases of the Covid-19 pandemic precipitated, for many, an abrupt shift to digitally- mediated, fully-remote work and education; for others, remote work and education were already realities. As the pandemic dragged into its third year, there emerged increasing political and public appetite for a “return to normal” – which, for the many Australian institutions who offered few or no fully-digital classes before 2020, is figured as a return to pre-2020 on-campus operations. This goal is justified by a deficit framing of online education relative to in-person learning, eliding the strengths and affordances of learning in digital spaces. If we are to prepare students to write effectively, we need to take seriously the notion that writing is always in digital environments and harness the strengths of online writing instruction such as scalability and improved accessibility. In this article, we draw on a case study of a hybrid researched writing class to demonstrate how an online-first Writing About Writing pedagogy helped students build the confidence, flexibility and self-efficacy needed to establish distinctive writerly identities. This prepares students to write more effectively in novel and rapidly-changing contexts, and offers one approach for building a sustainable, effective, realistic culture of writing.' (Publication abstract) 

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  • Epigraph: “I wrote to become part of that discourse community”: Developing writerly
    identity and agency in an online writing course

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    y separately published work icon TEXT Special Issue Digital Realism no. 69 2022 25658613 2022 periodical issue 'The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a heavy reliance on digital technologies: workplaces and classrooms have retreated to Zoom meetings; online video game narratives and streaming services have become a staple of contemporary entertainment; and social media pervades our life and seeks to distract us at every turn. Existence is now infused with non-human computer language. Even contemporary print texts display what N.K. Hayles calls the “mark of the digital” (2008, p. 159). Hayles (2008) argues that contemporary literature is deeply
    interpenetrated by electronic textuality:

    digital technologies do more than mark the surfaces of contemporary print novels. They also put into play dynamics that interrogate and reconfigure the relations between authors and readers, humans and intelligent machines, code and language… More than a mode of material production (although it is that), digitality has become the textual condition of the twenty-first-century literature. (p. 186) (Publication abstract)

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