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Sharon Goodman

Lecturer in Education

The Open University Faculty of Education and Language Studies Centre for Language and Communication


Profile

Sharon Goodman joined the Open University as a Lecturer in 1994. She is a linguist whose research combines linguistics with an interest in visual communication, particularly in media texts. She has been closely involved in the production of course materials for U210: The English Language: past, present and future, and E300: English Language and Literacy.

She is currently co-chairing a new MA module in production, E844: Language and Literacy in a Global Context.

Her main areas of academic interest are linguistics (particularly language and power, and sociolinguistics), semiotics, visual and verbal stylistics, and visual literacy, with particular interest in multi-modality in a variety of text types. Her work includes:

PhD thesis: Aesthetics and Consensus: verbal and visual poetics in newspaper discourse, University of East Anglia, 1995.

Visual English in Goodman S. and Graddol D., Redesigning English: new texts, new identities (Routledge, 1996);

Market Forces Speak English in Goodman S. and Graddol D., Redesigning English: new texts, new identities (Routledge, 1996);

News Stories - a television programme produced by BBC Education for the Open University's undergraduate course, U210: The English Language (1996).

She is a member of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), and the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL).

Publications

Authored Book
Coffin, Caroline; Curry, Mary Jane; Goodman, Sharon; Hewings, Ann; Lillis, Theresa and Swann, Joan (2003). Teaching Academic Writing: A Toolkit for Higher Education. London, UK: Routledge.
Goodman, Sharon; Lillis, Theresa; Maybin, Janet and Mercer, Neil (2003). Language, literacy and education: A reader. Stoke on Trent, UK: Trentham Books in association with The Open University.
Book Chapter
Goodman, Sharon (2007). Market forces speak English. In: Maybin, Janet; Mercer, Neil and Hewings, Ann eds. Using English. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 141–180.
Goodman, Sharon (2006). Literature and Technology. In: Goodman, Sharon ed. The Art of English: Literary Creativity. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 299–363.
Goodman, Sharon (2006). Word and Image. In: Goodman, Sharon ed. The Art of English: Literary Creativity. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 244–298.
Coffin, Caroline and Goodman, Sharon (2003). Academic writing in an electronic environment. In: Coffin, Caroline; Curry, Mary Jane; Goodman, Sharon; Hewings, Ann; Lillis, Theresa and Swann, Joan eds. Teaching Academic Writing: A Toolkit for Higher Education. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 130–157.
Goodman, Sharon and Swann, Joan (2003). Planning the assessment of student writing. In: Coffin, Caroline; Curry, Mary Jane; Goodman, Sharon; Hewings, Ann; Lillis, Theresa and Swann, Joan eds. Teaching Academic Writing: A Toolkit for Higher Education. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 73–100.