Rebecca's Research Blog

It’s difficult to structure a literature review – you have read tens, or even hundreds, of articles, chapters, blog posts and presentations, and it appears almost impossible to pull them into shape and relate them to your own work. As a PhD student, or an early-career researcher, it is difficult to know how your contribution […]

Literacy is ‘The ability to understand information however it is presented’ (Lanham 1995 in The Electronic Word) Lankshear and Knobel (2003) proposed that it has three dimensions: Operational – skills and techniques Cultural – development of shared meanings Critical – all literacies are socially constructed and selective, reflecting certain values, rules and perspectives, so individuals […]