Internationalizing professional writing programs through online study abroad and open networks
| Autor: | Lance Cummings |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Linguistics and Language
Class (computer programming) Reflection (computer programming) General Computer Science business.industry Process (engineering) 05 social sciences 050301 education 050801 communication & media studies Study abroad Public relations Language and Linguistics Education Professional writing 0508 media and communications Work (electrical) Goodwill Sociology business 0503 education Cultural competence |
| Zdroj: | Computers and Composition. 60:102640 |
| ISSN: | 8755-4615 |
| Popis: | As a new faculty at UNCW, I’ve worked to internationalize the professional writing program, mostly through accessible online technologies. UNCW is notably less diverse than the average university. Since many professional writing jobs involve collaboration across cultures (often online), students need more than just collaboration skills, but the cultural competence to make those collaborations work in online spaces. This article will tell the story of a three year, ongoing endeavor to build productive networks between UNCW and professionals in Poland, culminating in a faculty-led study abroad to Poland that was moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. In this article, I re-articulate study abroad as an online experience that creates new cultural spaces through interaction. Using data from student work, virtual professional visits, and instructor reflection, I will show how keeping network channels open with phatic forms of communication that establish goodwill are key to building productive online connections. Both students and instructors need to understand study abroad as an ongoing process, rather than a static back and forth confined by a particular class. To internationalize a professional writing program, we need to build bridges in multiple directions … bridges that are constantly becoming. A true study abroad experience is necessarily a networked one that includes digital spaces. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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