Cases of Writing Education for Self-Expression Using an Online Platform and the Operation Plans Thereof －Focusing on SNS and OVP Writing

Abstract

This study started from recognizing the fact that writing education for self-expression using an online platform is necessary for those university students who have been engaging in routinized, non-face activities due to COVID-19, and who have thus become very familiar with communication via an online platform. As things are, writing education as a university liberal arts subject has limitations for students who are not only familiar with writing in a digital world, so to speak, but who are expected to respond to our rapidly changing society using only traditional writing educational methods. To overcome these limitations, this study first emphasized the necessity of writing education for self-expression using an online platform that would serve as a window for communication. Secondly, this study proposed cases of writing education for self-expression using an online platform operated as a non-curricular program at University A. Participating students were highly satisfied with the topic of the non-curricular program, the content of the program operation, and the educational method of the program itself. In addition, the students were also highly satisfied with the possibility of using the program after they completed it, stating that their future participation would instill in them a sense of empowerment. These results show that writing education for self-expression using an online platform can contribute to the writing confidence of learners in various communication areas. Also, this study emphasized that non-curricular programs for self-expression using an online platform can be expanded to incorporate traditional university writing subjects, and further presented curriculum and operation plans to operate within current curricular writing subjects.