Literacy in the Disciplines: An Update
Events
Developing PolyU’s Remote and Online Writing Lab (PROWL)
Support developed for 18 high stakes assessed genres from three broad disciplines available on the LID website will provide the basis for supporting students from Science, Social Science, and Engineering. The project for PROWL has been funded from Dean’s Reserve. Peer mentors from relevant disciplines will be hired to support students with their writing and learning journey within their disciplines through engaging with them over several drafts. Peer mentors will work closely with ELC teachers during their training and mentoring. Student writers will be able to register in Week 3 of the semester and start discussing their writing at an early stage so that they could become adept at disciplinary writing conventions required for research and professional development through developing multiple drafts before submission.
PROWL will start recruiting peer mentors in August for Semester 1 Pilot.
FLUX: Writing Roundtable 2022
Writing Roundtable 2022 will be held on Friday, 20 May 2022 and be fully online. The theme is FLUX to reflect the state of the world. The aim is to bring together writers from academic and creative fields together to explore the theme and subthemes. Professor Sheena Gardner from Coventry University has accepted our invitation as keynote for the academic writing strand. Invitations have been sent to eminent English fiction and creative nonfiction authors for example in Hong Kong and we await their acceptance.
Also please hold the date for a preview event Flux Writing in the Age of Pandemia to be held on Wednesday, 15 December 2021. This event will feature writing for social media, life writing, personal and professional narratives, research, poetry, and fiction.
