Writing across the University of Alberta (WAUA) (Journal)
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How Tact Influences Reputation: A Study of a Chinese K-Pop Fan Club on Sina Weibo
Get PDFFor this assignment, students analyzed everyday writing—writing that we might not think about in the same ways as we think about writing at a university—and how communities use this everyday writing to accomplish a particular goal. In this case, Yuqing Xue looked at how the Chinese fans of Korean pop music (K-pop) stars use tact to subtly persuade other fans to further the community’s goals: to keep their idols’ reputations intact and to make them as popular as possible. K-pop fan groups recently demonstrated the power of their coordinated action campaigns by booking tickets for a Trump rally that they had no intention of attending. These inflated numbers led the Trump campaign to believe that more supporters would attend their rally than did. This recent example reveals how the writing of communities that we believe to be trivial may wield power and influence in other contexts
Welcome to the Inaugural Issue of Writing across the University of Alberta: Letter from the Editors
Get PDFA letter from the editors welcoming readers to the first issue of Writing across the University of Alberta
Meta-Cognitive Letter to the Instructor
Get PDFThis piece is a professional letter, written from student to instructor, about the student’s writing in the course. Students were given a space to reflect on what they learned about writing and how they developed as a writer over the semester. The assignment was intended to give students a chance to demonstrate their understanding of course concepts and methods
Identity Gained and Identity Lost: The Problematic Relationship with Literacy Sponsors
Get PDFThis assignment asked students to select a literacy sponsor, either an individual or an institution, from their personal experiences with literacy and explain to their readers how their interactions with this person or organization shaped or affected their development as a reader or writer
Images of our Writing: Posters of our watchers and learning in the time of COVID-19
Get PDFFor this poster assignment, students were asked to read Gail Godwin’s piece “The Watcher at the Gates” and imagine not only what their watcher might look like but also the ways in which their watcher affects their academic work. Posters A and B, by Linlin Tan and Yu Hu, show how students imagine their Watchers – the critical voice inside their heads – who often interfere with their writing or their creation process.
Posters C and D, by Haoyuan Li and Xingyi Wang, express students’ attitudes towards learning during the time of Covid-19. When the U of A made the decision to move the remainder of the Winter term 2020 to remote delivery, both instructors and students had very little time to adjust. This, in turn, created an opportunity for students to show in a one-page poster how they feel about learning online. Each poster expresses a different reaction to remote delivery