The SCP Foundation’s role in the development of academic literacy and the promotion of reading and creative writing

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This article analyses the international creative writing project SCP Foundation as constructive hyperfiction built on fictional scientific articles. The study clarifies formative aspects of this literacy practice and examines implications for planning innovative, educational classroom activities. Articles were selected using the relevance principle, then assessed through qualitative analysis using thick description and textual analysis. Findings identify SCP Foundation as an affinity space for literacy-based learning, using diverse formal-academic registers and multimodal hypertext structures, while converging information disorders and creative literary reading.

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License 4.0 BY-NC-SA Publicaciones. Facultad de Educacióny Humanidades del Campus de Melilla Depósito legal: GR-94-2001 · eISSN: 2530-9269 · pISSN: 1577-4147 Editor: Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación y del Deporte de Melilla (Universidad de Granada) The SCP Foundation’s role in the development of academic literacy and the promotion of reading and creative writing La Fundación SCP en el desarrollo de la alfabetización académica, fomento dela lectura y la escritura creativa SCP基金会在学术素养，阅读培养和创意写作的推广Фонд SCP в развитии академической грамотности, продвижении чтения итворческого письма Anastasio García Roca University of Almería [agr638@ual.es](agr638@ual.es)[ ](agr638@ual.es)[https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2277-3034](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2277-3034) Dates · Fechas Received: 2021/01/10 Accepted: 2021/02/20 Published: 2021/06/30 How to Cite this Paper · Cómo citar este trabajo García, A. (2021) . The SCP Foundation’s role in the development of academic literacy and the promotion of reading and creative writing. Publicaciones, 51(1), 29–42. [https://doi.org/10.30827/publicaciones.v51i1.16488](https://doi.org/10.30827/publicaciones.v51i1.16488) | Original Articles Artículos Originales | Publicaciones 51(1), 29-42. [https://doi.org/10.30827/publicaciones.v51i1.16488](https://doi.org/10.30827/publicaciones.v51i1.16488)[ ](https://doi.org/10.30827/publicaciones.v51i1.16488)[Garc](Garc)í[a](a), A. (2021) . The SCP Foundation’s role in the development of academic… | | --- | --- | 29 Abstract This article analyses the international creative writing project SCP Foundation as a constructive hyperfiction based on the creation of fictional scientific articles. The objective of this study is to specify the formative aspects of this literary practice and explore the implications for planning innovative and educational classroom activities. To do this, articles were selected according to the relevance principle-the 25 SCPs with the highest impact and the best scores - and a qualitative analysis was performed employing thick description and textual analysis. The findings show that the SCP Foundation is an affinity space in which important literacy-based learning is developed. In addition, it is noteworthy that a highly heterogeneous formal-academic linguistic register is used in the selection of the topics, theresources employed, the complex hypertext structures and the multimodal elements. Furthermore, in this literary practice, information disorders such as fake news, data manipulation and research ethics as well as aspects related to literary reading such as urban legendsand creative writing, generally converge. Therefore, these are unique texts that promote Media and Information Literacy in informal contexts in addition to being works that have the educational potential to encourage reading. | Keywords: information literacy, reading, creative writing, informal education, creepypasta. | | --- | | Resumen
En este artículo se ha analizado el proyecto internacional de escritura creativa Fundación SCP en tanto que hiperficción constructiva basada en la creación de artículos científicos de carácter ficcional. El objetivo del presente estudio se ha centrado en concretar los aspectos formativos de esta práctica letrada y explorar las implicaciones para el planteamiento de actividades de innovación educativa en las aulas. Para ello, se ha realizado una selecciónbasada en el principio de relevancia: los 25 SCPs con mayor impacto y mejor puntuados y se ha realizado un análisis cualitativo a través de una descripción densa y análisis textual. Los resultados hallados muestran que se trata de un espacio de afinidad en el que se desarrollan importantes aprendizajes vinculados a la alfabetización. Además, es destacable el uso de un registro lingüístico formal-académico con una gran heterogeneidad en la selección de temáticas, recursos empleados, complejas estructuras hipertextuales y elementos multimodales. En est

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What is the SCP Foundation analyzed as in the article?

It is analyzed as a constructive hyperfiction project grounded in the creation of fictional scientific articles.

How were the articles for the study selected and analyzed?

They were selected using the relevance principle (the 25 SCPs with the highest impact and best scores) and then examined through qualitative analysis using thick description and textual analysis.

What key learning characteristics does the study report about the SCP Foundation?

The findings describe it as an affinity space that develops literacy-based learning, supported by diverse formal-academic linguistic registers, complex hypertext structures, and multimodal elements.

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