Students will conduct online research, and learn how to document electronic citations. English 290 is, finally, a writing course, and participants will be encouraged to improve their literacy and communication skills. In meeting these objectives, the course encourages students to think critically about the practices and technologies of CMC, and how emerging digital technologies are influencing our society from private life to education, business, politics, and culture. Students are encouraged to develop collaborative strategies for research, document design, and production. All course transactions can be accomplished by electronic means, including the submission and evaluation of assignments.
All assignments are due in class on the dates specified unless otherwise noted.
We see the powerful effects of digital technologies on education, business, politics and culture. The ubiquitous PC is transforming the way professionals work, and the kinds of work they do. Simultaneously, the layout options which come as standard features in most contemporary word-processors have raised the general standards of document design and production. Electronic mail has had an equally powerful and widespread impact on communication within and among organizations and businesses. As Don Tapscott documents in his 1995 book The Digital Economy , distributed networks with e-mail at their core are revolutionizing how corporations and organizations are doing business.