{"id":158,"date":"2014-04-03T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2014\/04\/03\/unit-writing\/"},"modified":"2014-04-03T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T10:32:00","slug":"unit-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/unit-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time involved in the unit writing process over the last few weeks. Two developments have produced a number of new or revised units: the <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/03\/nc-computing-faq.html\">NC Review<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/02\/digital-passport-faq.html\">Digital Passport<\/a> development.<\/p>\n<p>The Digital Passport units have been particularly challenging. This is because the award is so new -and its contents reflect this. For example, the units on <i>Network Literacy<\/i> will be first national qualifications in this area from any awarding body in the world. While it&#8217;s exciting to be part of any world-first project, it also takes a lot of time to try to get it right.<\/p>\n<p>Unit specifications are fairly technical documents, written for professional practitioners, and they come with their own rules and etiquettes. The <i>Guide for Writers<\/i> defines the rules and provides advice:<\/p>\n<p>Whenever we&#8217;re looking for people to write units we&#8217;ll advertise the opportunities in the <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/03\/working-with-us.html\">usual way<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time involved in the unit writing process over the last few weeks. Two developments have produced a number of new or revised units: the NC Review and the Digital Passport development. The Digital Passport units have been particularly challenging. This is because the award is so new -and its contents reflect this. For example, the units on Network Literacy will be first national qualifications in this area from any awarding body in the world. While&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}