A Conceptual Model of New Writing: Beaufort’s Writing Knowledge Domains 2.0

• In Event: Roundtable Session 7
  In Roundtable Session: Multimodalities, Multiliteracies, Writing, and Identity

Abstract

If the practice of writing were to be accurately reflected in the writing required of large-scale assessments, one would assume that writing is monomodal, a-contextual, linear, and static. On the contrary, the advent of the Internet challenges writers to transform their knowledge of writing domains (Beaufort, 2007) as they encounter new technologies, new genres, new discourses, and new rhetorical strategies that are entailed as new writing is characterized by hypertext, hypermedia, and hyperattention (Neal, 2011). This presentation will articulate a construct, based on a content analysis of extant writing theories, that will help to conceptualize writing in light of this generation’s defining technology: the Internet.

Author

• Julie Corrigan, University of Ottawa