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ENGL 282 A: Composing For The Web

Composing Digital Cultures

Meeting Time: 
MW 1:30pm - 3:20pm
Location: 
THO 325
SLN: 
13925

Additional Details:

This course satisfies the “W” university requirement and introduces multi-modal composition by focusing on writing in the digital culture. Working from Vincent Miller’s book, Understanding Digital Cultures, and a selection of critical readings, we will learn to both produce and analyze “writing” in a world with a growing intersection between material and digital spaces. In practice, our writing will give us an opportunity to experiment with different platforms, technologies, modes, and genres that digital spaces provide. For instance, how might we use platforms like Twitter or WIX or Facebook to achieve our rhetorical ends? What happens when these processes are automated? Who is the writer? Our analysis will also allow us to experiment with various approaches to analyzing “writing” within digital culture. For instance, how might we do genre or discourse analysis of a website or a blog or other multi-modal, digital ""writing?"" How might a plugin guide us to less biased web-browsing? What can a million Tweets tell us about Grammar Policing? By the end of the quarter, you will be in a better position to navigate and compose in a society increasingly defined by an interaction between the digital and the analog.

Catalog Description: 
Strategies for composing effective multimodal texts for print, digital physical delivery, with focus on affordances of various modes--words, images, sound, design, and gesture--and genres to address specific rhetorical situations both within and beyond the academy. Although the course has no prerequisites, instructors assume knowledge of academic writing.
GE Requirements: 
Arts and Humanities (A&H)
Writing (W)
Status: 
Active
Last updated: 
October 5, 2016 - 9:04pm
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