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1. What are the problems struggling writers have in writing classes?
📌 Studied difficulties that struggling writers often have in common. Besides the physical or cognitive problems,
📙many struggling writers have language difficulties.
📗struggling writers is often less motivated to write and fails to organize their ideas.
📘These learners usually have poor handwriting (or has difficulty to write) and writes slowly or illegibly.
📕expressing their idea through composition and sometimes have trouble communicating and understanding their teachers and peers during discussion in the classroom.
2. What does 'digital writing' refer to?
✏️Digital writing is a computers and technology as a part of their everyday lives, and who rapidly and abundantly consumes information in different ways from how previous generations has led to their unique learning style . The ways that computers and technology have become basic needs for Generation M have given rise to digital writing as the medium to communicate with each other. Their writing, therefore, does not follow the conventions of what is considered traditional writing. Rather, it is less formal, often has conversational style, involves shorthand, is less focused on grammar and writing patterns, and sometimes features images and audio .
3. What are the three digital writing tools? Give brief descriptions?
❤️💻Blog : a blog is a discussion, informational article or personal journal, published on the World Wide Web, which is often frequently updated. The entries (also called posts) are usually displayed in reverse chronological order.
🧡📲Instant Messaging (IM) – MSN, Line, Twitter, Skype, chat-room
Instant Messaging (IM) is a form of Internet-based, real time text communication between users on the same system. Normally, IM appears on many websites, online services, and applications, some of which combine the text as well as voice communication, both on the computer and on the phone, such as MSN, chat-room websites, Skype, Line, iChat, Twitter, and Facebook.
💛🖥⌨️Social Network Site (SNS)
A social network site (SNS) is a website or an online service platform in which people share interest,create a public or semi-public profile, and interact with other users. Many SNSs, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and My Space, combine various features of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) technologies .
4. How has digital writing enhanced the teaching of writing?
💎Many digital writing applications offer an anonymity feature. They provide opportunities for users to use nicknames or pseudonyms. This anonymous identity results in less anxiety and more pleasant classrooms, and therefore can benefit students who might be risk-averting in learning writing within the normal classroom environment.
🎈In digital writing, learners actually type out what they want to communicate to the group or readers. This emulated real-time communication is perceived as advantageous since learners can see what their partners intend to communicate through the typed text.
🎀Third, digital writing promotes learners’ equity in terms of interaction. Since all users are able to see everyone’s messages and respond to those messages in real-time.
5. What are the things that you should take into consideration to employ digital writing for teaching academic writing?
🖍Technology and the Internet have offered learners and teachers various new educational tools to practice and instruct writing in a more authentic and innovative way. However, many writing teachers still continue to rely solely on the conventional essay writing genre with the traditional parameters assessment . In fact, the role of a writing teacher is to help learners improve what they are incapable of doing .
6. Which activity do you like most? Why?
💕Activity 4: Little Reporter
Because it can use of a private self-hosted blog or Social Network Sites’ closed group like Facebook or Twitter, students will act as reporters for a school newspaper. They will write something about what happens in school or in the classroom. The topic can be varied such as student spotlight, student life, sports, polls, and gossip. Moreover , it can make practice for students and reduce a serious in school.
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