| A Small Scale Study into the Effect that Text & Background Colour has on Processing and Self-Correction Rates for Childrens’ On-Screen Reading | ||||||
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Today’s children are encountering on-screen books in both formal education and daily recreational pursuits. This Research determines best practices in text and background colour for the design of this material. |
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| A Clash of Chronotopes: Adult reading of Children’s and Young Adult Literature | ||||||
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In this paper we explore ways in which adults engage children’s and young adult books in primary and secondary schools in relation to Bakhtin’s posited chronotope |
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| Failure in a Successful Interpretation: The Problem of Visual Literacy in Hablot Knight Browne’s Illustrations for Bleak House | ||||||
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This paper argues that Hablot Knight Browne shifted his illustration method to mirror that of Charles Dickens' own transition into a realist mode of writing. |
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| From Spoken Narration to Book: Adapting Oral Traditions to Modern Fiction in Native American Writing | ||||||
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How to keep alive some feeling of the long oral traditions in their native languages is an important part of the "project" of contemporary Native American writing. |
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| Through Thick and Thin: On the Typology and Agency of Literary Journals | ||||||
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This paper develops a typological distinction between ‘thick’ and ‘thin’ literary journals which runs through the content, form and function of these key publishing institutions in the twentieth century. |
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| The Progression of Digital Publishing: Innovation and the E-volution of E-books | ||||||
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Many e-books are merely an electronic image of a paper product; others broaden the spectrum of publishing. Examining three innovative digital texts demonstrates the potential and challenges of electronic publications. |
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| Literacy Crisis: A Realist Approach to the Acquisition and Development of Literacy in Primary Education in KwaZulu-Natal | ||||||
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Doctoral research into literacy acquisition and development at the primary school level (Grade 4,5,6) in South African schools, reviews work in progress. |
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| Using Panels to Shape Visual Storytelling: Organizing Flow in the Graphic Narrative | ||||||
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Exploring the theories and design behind panel and grid layout for the graphic narrative. |
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| Oral and Written Traditions in the Preservation of the Authenticity of the Qur’an | ||||||
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An examination of The Holy Qur’an and its historical role in transforming human civilisation from an oral to a written tradition. |
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| The Fate of Reading, Thinking, and Learning in an Electronic Age | ||||||
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This presentation will consider how literary reading practices and educational practices are transformed in the digital environment. |
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