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.
- 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 2016Help 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 pathsWeek 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.
Read / skim / look at as a way of starting a heuristic search
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink
- https://eloninteractive.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/history-of-the-hyperlink/
- https://www.nngroup.com/articles/hypertext-history/
- http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/ht/jhup/history.html
- http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/ht/jhup/htov.html
- http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/in-search-of-the-proto-memex/371385/
- http://www.garlikov.com/teaching/hyperlinks.htm
- http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/hyperlink.html
- http://quod.lib.umich.edu/n/nmw/5680986.0001.001/1:2/--hyperlinked-society-questioning-connections-in-the-digital?g=dculture;rgn=div1;view=fulltext;xc=1#2.3
- http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr12/park/park.htm
- https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/index.php/jodi/article/view/23/24
- http://www.wordcircuits.com/htww/morgan1.htm
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
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