Design, Deliver, Devolve: Postgraduate Writing, Editing, & Publishing Students' Interaction on Blackboard Sites

By:
Dr Roslyn Petelin
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This paper analyses the interaction among postgraduate Writing, Editing, and Publishing students and their instructor on three Blackboard sites during Semester 2, 2007. The courses comprise academic and corporate writing and editing and journalistic writing. The Blackboard sites contain lecture notes; readings; annotated and evaluated extension sites; genre exemplars; assignment exemplars; marked-up editing tests; tutorial exercises; and discussion forums. The students are exceptionally experienced, motivated, and talented. Their involvement on Blackboard is extensive and intensive, with hundreds of posts stretching through seven days of every week. In this paper, I analyse the content and pattern of contributions and responses both from the students and me, the instructor. As a postgraduate cohort, the students see one of the key benefits of using Blackboard as the intensifying of the camaraderie that is built up in our face-to-face classroom. Another key benefit is the valuable
extension and enhancement of content knowledge.


Keywords: Blackboard, Postgraduate Students, Writing, Editing, and Publishing, Discussion Forums
Stream: Pedagogies and Teaching Practices
Presentation Type: 30 minute Paper Presentation in English
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Dr Roslyn Petelin

Senior Lecturer, School of English, Media Studies, and Art History
Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Dr Roslyn Petelin convenes the postgraduate program in Writing, Editing, & Publishing at the University of Queensland. She is Editor of the Australian Journal of Communication and an ex-President and Honorary Life Member of the Australian & New Zealand Communication Association. She has written two books The Professional Writing Guide: Writing Well and Knowing Why (with Marsha Durham) and Professional Communication: Principles and Applications (with Peter Putnis). She has published on scholarly editing, e-Learning, and corporate writing and regularly consults to business and industry.

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