Digital Literacy in the Workplace Begins in School: A Research Study on Digital Information Literacy Pedagogies for FYC Classrooms
type: CreativeWork
description: This paper sets out to answer the following research questions: How can instructors take students’ current digital literacy knowledge and work them into a curriculum designed to help them build their digital information skills? How can instructors teach digital information in a way that gives students the ability to adapt their skills into different environments and growing technologies to better prepare them for the workplace? By looking at the current state of student research and comparing techniques to professional writing situations by looking at skills, such as communication and critical thinking, that employers want the most.
abstract: This paper sets out to answer the following research questions: How can instructors take students’ current digital literacy knowledge and work them into a curriculum designed to help them build their digital information skills? How can instructors teach digital information in a way that gives students the ability to adapt their skills into different environments and growing technologies to better prepare them for the workplace? By looking at the current state of student research and comparing techniques to professional writing situations by looking at skills, such as communication and critical thinking, that employers want the most.
author: Shaw, Ashley
keywords: FYC research, professional writing, digital literacy, Rhetoric and Composition
date published: 2019-04-25T07:00:00Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T02:43:26Z
provider: Kennesaw State University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Kennesaw State University