- Associate Professor in Writing Studies, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
Frances is an interdisciplinary scholar, formally trained in archaeology and religious studies, who teaches writing, rhetoric, and argumentation. Her area of specialisation is the analysis of communicative artifacts, and her current research projects focus on digital writing pedagogy, the digitisation of wayside shrines, and religious tourism sites. She has developed innovative digital assessments using OER, open-access mobile technologies, and open mass collaboration platforms.
Experience
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2017–presentSenior Lecturer, University of Sydney
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2007–2016Lecturer, University of Sydney
Education
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2013The University of Sydney, Graduate Certificate of Teaching (Higher Education)
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2011The Universit of Sydney, PhD
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2005The University of Sydney, BA (Hons 1) Religious Studies
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2003The University of Sydney, BA Religious Studies and Archaeology
Publications
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2020Wikipedia in Higher Education: Practice What You Teach., Studies in Higher Education
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2020‘If it is not in Wikipedia, blame yourself:' edit-a-thons as vehicles for computer supported collaborative learning in higher education, Studies in Higher Education
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2017Student Perceptions of Writing with Wikipedia in Australian Higher Education (with Robert E. Cummings), First Monday
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2017Employing Wikipedia for Good not Evil: Innovative Approaches to Collaborative Writing Assessment (with Rebecca Johinke), Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
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2013Multimodal Writing Instruction in a Global World (with Susan Thomas, Angela Shetler, and Benjamin Miller), Kairos
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2012Between Heaven and Hell: Faces of Iniquity and Surrender in Dante Alighieri's "La Divina Commedia", Lambert Publishing
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2007On a Panegyrical Note: Studies in Honour of Garry W Trompf, Sydney Studies in Religion
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- Location: Sydney, Australia
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