Elements of E-Rhetoric: Elements of Electronic Rhetoric

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Elements of Electronic Rhetoric

ENGL 3179/5179

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for Thurs

re-read Stoner on Scudder, pp 46-7.
Return to the Emily Cummins site <http://emilycummins.co.uk> and your Description wiki page. Look again at the Cummins site and observe the three pages: home, about, current. Make notes - and stay with notes for now - of what you observe. Use neutral language, assume a balcony view - the stance from outside the rhetorical exchange. Observe and describe the pictures, the site and page design, the texts. Characterize each - again, using neutral language - as your observing develops. Make notes on the context this site addresses. Look again.
Note glandular reactions if you wish - but note them under an appropriate heading apart from your description notes.
Use bullets or just lines of observation - whatever suits you. But you should have multiple screens of observations before you're done.

Thurs 4 Feb

Worth looking at : http://www.wordle.net/ Give it a text, it creates a frequency cloud.

some notes on descriptions of Emily Cummins pages
Start ProWebPresenceProject: form pairs or groups and plan your strategy.

Over the weekend

start descriptions of content and context of Stallman site
keep referring to Stoner, chap 4, and chap 3
for considering prose, use BasicSentencePatterns

Other elements to consider and describe

links: frequency, placement
lists
design of the page: headings, length, organization/sequence down the page
navigation
footer information
...

Tues 9 Feb

Workshop: in class work on ProWebPresenceProject.
We'll start sharing some descriptive material and research

Thurs 11 Feb

no class: continue ProWebPresenceProject. This might be the time to revisit the Cummins site.
read Stoner, chap 9 for the search model we'll use for this project

Reference

BasicSentencePatterns
HandlistOfWeblogs
HandlistOfTwitter
SocialNetworkingProject Notes from the 2008 projects

On deck

ARhetoricOfTwitter

Features spring 2010: We investigate the rhetorical significance behind weblogs, wikis, microblogging, and Flickr through a series of student-designed projects. The principles behind the practice. 10:00 T and R.

If you're interested in the class, have a look at the CourseStatement (under revision for 2010).

Parallel Course

ENGL 3179/5179: Weblogs and Wikis. Conversation and community with WordPress, wikis, and Flickr; micro-blogging with Twitter and Tumblr.

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ENGL 3179/5179 Elements of Electronic Rhetoric
A project-based course in digital and new media

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