You are here

  1. Home
  2. Dr Sharon Goodman

Dr Sharon Goodman

Profile summary

  • Central Academic Staff
  • Lecturer (English Lang/App Linguistics)
  • Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies
  • School of Languages & Applied Linguistics
  • English Language & Applied Linguistics
  • sharon.goodman

Professional biography

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 was closely involved in the production of course materials for U214 Worlds of English, E301 The art of English, EA300 Children's Literature and E302 Language and Creativity.

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.  She currently oversees the undergraduate module Language and Creativity.

Teaching interests

English language and linguistics.

Research groups

NameTypeParent Unit
CREET: Language and Literacies Research ClusterClusterFaculty of Education and Language Studies

Publications

Teaching Academic Writing: A Toolkit for Higher Education (2003-11)
Coffin, Caroline; Curry, Mary Jane; Goodman, Sharon; Hewings, Ann; Lillis, Theresa and Swann, Joan
Coffin, Caroline; Curry, Mary Jane; Goodman, Sharon; Hewings, Ann; Lillis, Theresa and Swann, Joan eds.
ISBN : 978-0-415-26136-4 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London, UK

Language, literacy and education: A reader (2003-03)
Goodman, Sharon; Lillis, Theresa; Maybin, Janet and Mercer, Neil
ISBN : 9781858562889 | Publisher : Trentham Books in association with The Open University | Published : Stoke on Trent, UK

Market forces speak English (2007)
Goodman, Sharon
In: Maybin, Janet; Mercer, Neil and Hewings, Ann eds. Using English (pp. 141-180)
ISBN : 0-415-37682-3 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London, UK

Literature and Technology (2006)
Goodman, Sharon
In: Goodman, Sharon ed. The Art of English: Literary Creativity (pp. 299-363)
ISBN : 9781403985606 | Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan | Published : Basingstoke, UK

Word and Image (2006)
Goodman, Sharon
In: Goodman, Sharon ed. The Art of English: Literary Creativity (pp. 244-298)
ISBN : 9781403985606 | Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan | Published : Basingstoke, UK

Academic writing in an electronic environment (2003)
Coffin, Caroline and Goodman, Sharon
In: Coffin, Caroline; Curry, Mary Jane; Goodman, Sharon; Hewings, Ann; Lillis, Theresa and Swann, Joan eds. Teaching Academic Writing: A Toolkit for Higher Education (pp. 130-157)
ISBN : 978-0-415-26136-4 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London, UK

Planning the assessment of student writing (2003)
Goodman, Sharon and Swann, Joan
In: Coffin, Caroline; Curry, Mary Jane; Goodman, Sharon; Hewings, Ann; Lillis, Theresa and Swann, Joan eds. Teaching Academic Writing: A Toolkit for Higher Education (pp. 73-100)
ISBN : 978-0-415-26136-4 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London, UK

Re-designing English (2007)
Goodman, Sharon; Graddol, David and Lillis, Theresa eds.
ISBN : 978-0-415-37689-1 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London, UK

The Art of English: Literary Creativity (2006)
Goodman, Sharon and O'Halloran, Kieran eds.
ISBN : 9781403985606 | Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan | Published : Basingstoke, UK