COM10295 - Written Communication (2014)

Introduces students to active practices of reading and writing, different forms of writing and critical reading strategies that will enable them to analyse and critique meanings in the written word. Reading and writing skills are introduced with a particular emphasis on critical thinking and essay writing as forms of academic practice.

• Orality and literacy
• The reading-writing nexus
• Literacy and the politics of writing
• Critical literacy and critical thinking
• New literacies
• Future literacies
• Dangerous writing
• Rhetoric and persuasion
• Language and expression
• Across the disciplines

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

Prescribed texts