WCW Syllabus:WebWritingAndDesign

WCW Syllabus

Medium links

Emma: https://medium.com/@eMma_guthrie13
Ryan: https://medium.com/@ryan_petter
Emily: https://medium.com/@emilyhanson_89869
Whitney: https://medium.com/@whitneypjackson

For 2015, we'll be using medium.com as an editing and publishing platform. If you want to get a start on things, set up a twitter account and a medium.com account.

The first course meeting is R, 14 Jan, 12:30 - 1:45, HS 109. New materials will come online each Thursday or Friday.

intros
WCWStatement
"A class in New Media Writing ... is a class largely concerned with how to talk about reading and creating digital texts." Craig Stroup, "The Rhetoric of Irritation."
BootCamp assigned for Sun 17 Jan and Tue 19 Jan
Deadline: 17 Jan

Week of 19 Jan

BootCamp deadlines: Sunday, 17 Jan and Tue 19 Jan.

in class

Bring a laptop
Questions on WCWStatement
Responses to Medium: Confusion, different spaces to post, following and the like. We won't be using Medium this coming week but will use it next week.
Responses to introductions to self. BootCamp asked you to "1. Draft a short article (no longer than 1 minute reading time) to serve as an introduction of yourself to the class and the world. Include an image, and at least one link. What might this intro be? A CV, perhaps. A short autobio in first, second, or third person. A short self-introduction. A short statement of what you're doing this semester. Something that "can serve as an introduction of yourself to the class." The form is up to you. So, try a few different options and keep your drafts in the drafts section of your Medium space." To what extent did you take on the opportunity the exercise gave you?
Late and slapdash work

Reading for Thu 21 Jan

Read Web Style Guide, chap 9: Editorial Style. The chapter addresses the commonplace conventions of writing text for The Web. Read the entire chapter.

Medium links

Emma: https://medium.com/@eMma_guthrie13
Ryan: https://medium.com/@ryan_petter
Emily: https://medium.com/@emilyhanson_89869
Whitney: https://medium.com/@whitneypjackson

Part 2

Wiki info: Refer to GettingStarted for formatting.
Work with the exercise EditorialStyleAndOthers
Deadline: Wed midnight 27 Jan, for discussion on Thu 28 Jan class.

Finish up

After our discussion, choose one of the introductions you worked on for this exercise - or draft another - and post it as a an intro on Medium to replace the first one you posted.
Add an image that works with the writer-audience relationship you're establishing in the written intro.

Reading and exercise for 4 Feb

MakeMeThinkAboutLength - reading and notes posted to the wiki due Wed Feb 3, midnight, for discussion Thursday
Part 2 Due Thu, 11 Feb: MakeMeThinkAboutLengthWithAFolkTale

Week of Feb 11 - 18

MakeMeThinkAboutLengthWithAFolkTale drafts due by the end of the day Thursday
Post the draft to Medium as a draft or as public. You'll want it on Medium so you can start formatting it. If you post it as a draft, it isn't shared with the public.

how to post a link to your draft

On Medium

When you have a draft ready to look at, click on the Share button, next to the Publish button.
Copy the link.

Switch over to the WCW wiki.

Log in if you need to.
Go to your wiki name page.
Edit the page.
Paste the draft link into your wiki name page. Use to make the link informative
Save the page.

for Thu 18 Feb

posted 12 Feb. update 17 Feb 2016

Help each other out with comments on drafts.

Guiding questions for commenting on the FolkTaleDrafts
Comment on each draft at least once by Wednesday morning so that your colleagues can revise and finalize a draft by Wednesday midnight, and be ready to post the final right after class on Thursday.
Final drafts will go to Medium right after class on Thursday. We'll use some of our time tomorrow to review final drafts.
We'll meet at the usual time on Thu 18 Feb to review the final versions of your folktales, and to introduce the next project.

for week of 18 Feb - 25 Feb

Reading and notes for MakeMeThinkAboutLinks
Notes due class time Thu 25 Feb to discuss in class.
Morgan's notes: Burbules's Handlist of Links, on E-Rhetoric.

for the week of 25 Feb - 3 Mar

ReadingHypertextGardens
Have notes ready by class time on 3 Mar so we can talk

from last year

Maps, i.e. Reading paths

Week of Mar 3 - 10

update 10 Mar 2016 Stuck? Looks like you might be. We'll take time today to unstick.

MakeMeThinkAboutLinksWithAnEncomium
Medium article draft due Thu 10 Mar, class time. Post to a wiki page, or to your Medium account, with a link from the wiki to your draft.
We'll review drafts, make suggestions on revisions.

- Post final by end of the week.

Read / skim / look at as a way of starting a heuristic search

Week of Mar 21 - 24

New version of MakeMeThinkAboutLinksWithAnEncomium due by class time Thu 24 Mar.
Discuss - comment - revise
Morgan's NotesOnHypotaxisAndParataxis
Final rev posted by Fri 25 Mar, midnight local time. (CDT in Bemidji. GMT in Oxford)

Week of Mar 24 - 31

MakeMeThinkAboutOrganizingExercise. Due: By class time 31 Mar so we can discuss them.
There will be a part 2 after we meet next week.

Week of Apr 14 - 21

MakeMeThinkAboutOrganizingExercise, part 2
Meet on Apr 14 to look at part 2.

Last Medium article: MakeMeThinkAboutOrganizingWithADialogue

Draft due for discussion 21 Apr.
Final due the following Sunday.

Finals Week May 2 - 6

I'll be evaluating final work this week and sending out an evaluation form for the course.

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