Digital Writing OER?

[Ann Del Principe]

Dear OER Community, 

My college is developing a new (for us!) course in "digital writing" or maybe "writing for digital media" – you get the idea – and we'd really love to design it using OER materials. I've been searching around for materials of this sort in the usual places I'd find comp rhet OER stuff, and I keep striking out. If you have suggestions for me, I'd welcome them! 

Thank you, 

Annie Del Principe

Annie Del Principe, PhD

Professor and Chairperson

Department of English

[Mark Parfitt]

Two suggestions from the marketing side of digital writing:

1) Check out Part Three (Chapters 9 -13) of Red & Yellow's eMarketing book. The book is CC BY-NC-SA.

https://www.redandyellow.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/RY_eMarketing_ed7.pdf

2) eCampus Ontario has a comprehensive set of digital files for their Digital Media and Marketing Communications course. Modules 4 and 5 contain text and activities related to content development for digital media. If you click on the Download link, you can get a zip file of all resources. The materials are CC BY.
https://openlibrary.ecampusontario.ca/item-details/#/8c10f99e-55c1-4ae8-8808-3f7499996a59

Best of luck!

Mark

Mark Parfitt
Adjunct Business Instructor
Accelerated College Education (ACE) Business Liaison 
Pennsylvania Highlands Community College
mpar...@pennhighlands.edu
Call/Text: 814-404-3144 | pennhighlands.edu

 

[Lindsay Josephs]

Hi Dr. Del Principe,

OpenStax offers a free, online, OER textbook — Writing Guide with Handbook — which may suit your course needs. This textbook aligns with the goals, topics, and objectives of most first-year writing and composition courses. One of the book's themes is "Information and media literacy," and the text even guides students through the process of creating a portfolio.

Some chapters that may be particularly useful include:

• Chapter 1: The Digital World: Building on What You Already Know to Respond Critically
• Chapter 18: Multimodal and Online Writing: Creative Interaction between Text and Image
• Chapter 17: Image Analysis: What You See
• Chapter 7: Evaluation or Review: Would You Recommend It?
• Chapter 14: Annotated Bibliography: Gathering, Evaluating, and Documenting Sources

Additionally, the text highlights the work of prominent individuals who work in genres like newspapers, visual arts, and films through the "Genre Trailblazer" feature.

Please let me know if you have any questions about the text.

Best,

Lindsay Josephs

Demand Generation Specialist

OpenStax

On Friday, June 7, 2024 at 1:57:46 PM UTC-4 Ann Del Principe wrote: