For each project, you will also practice writing and revising. Your original authoring role will be worth one-third of your grade on each project. My criteria for grading your work will be the same criteria collaboratively authored by the class in answer to the two central research questions of the class. For Projects 2-4 you will have an opportunity to revise your work following the initial class presentations. This course covers four types of currently practiced electronic writing.
Electronic communication is constantly in a state of dynamic flux or change as the media evolves.
However, I believe we can study and practice current forms of electronic writing in order to become better communicators in whatever new molds these media may solidify toward in the future. Our challenge, as students of electronic writing, will be to try to make explicit those features of effective communication which may transcend the instability and flux of the media. In other words, we will constantly pose two questions. To answer these questions, we will immerse ourselves in the forms of writing that we will study, attempting to practice what we preach. Our first form of writing to study, asynchronous email and bulletin boards, will become an ongoing medium all semester for discussing and answering the above questions.