ENGL 2850 — Writing for Social Media: Theory and Practice

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath EINUpath ICNUpath WItypical days: TOakland, CATraditional

Explores the development and roles of social media writing. Asks students to describe, define, and contextualize current social media genre(s) using readings from social media sites, scholarship, popular/journalistic works, and fiction. Invites students to adopt a new social media platform and to produce social media writing in short, longer individually produced, and longer collaborative forms. Offers each student an opportunity to create a curated, reflective portfolio that works toward an integrated personal/professional digital identity.

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