COMS1004 Digital and Social Media

This topic develops the knowledge and skills required to write for a range of purposes in the digital environment. It requires the demonstration of online writing skills for a range of purposes at professional industry standards which include producing: a response to a brief for writing web content; edited web pages which comply with industry conventions; re-purposed text such as that required to convert a print resource to a web page.

This topic aims to:

• Introduce students to conventions of written English for professional contexts
• Provide students with the opportunities to assess their own, and others, written texts, and identify areas for improvement
• Introduce skills in editing and redrafting

1. Produce a response to a brief for writing web content
2. Produce simple, edited web pages, which comply with conventions
3. Produce re-purposed text, e.g. print resource to web page