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M 9/27: Introduction: PWR2, E-Rhetoric, and You

W 9/29: Looking Back, Looking Forward

F 10/1: Constructing Persona as an E-Rhetor

  • Assignment Due: Bring your laptop to class (if you plan to use it in Wallenberg this quarter)

M 10/4: How Technology Changes Research and Writing

W 10/6: Comparing Rhetorics

F 10/8: Writing for the Web


M 10/11: Presentations of Student Research Proposals

M 10/11: Tech Office hours: Wallenberg 125 - 7-9pm
T 10/12: Tech Office hours: Wallenberg 125 - 7-9pm

W 10/13: Presentations of Student Research Proposals

F 10/15: Presentations of Student Research Proposals


M 10/18: PowerPoint and Disseminating/Understanding Information

W 10/20: Effective Use of Oral & Visual Rhetoric

  • Assignment due: Your own research

F 10/22: Delivery and Embodied Rhetorics

  • Assignment due: Your own research

M 10/25: Hypertext and the Reading Experience

W 10/27: Hypertext and Argument

  • Readings due: Browse websites from CS201 (specific sites will be assigned in class Monday) for the use of e-rhetoric and hypertext; "Eight Levels of Electronic Research Papers"
  • Recommended reading: Envision ch. 8 (selections)
  • Assignment due: Your own research
  • Writing due: Annotated list of top three e-rhetoric features from the hypertext that you looked at that you might use as models for your own project (post on Forum)

F 10/29: Hypertext and Organization



M 11/1: On-Line Communications - Conventions of E-Mail, IM, and Blogs

  • Writing due: Visual Map (post on Forum); Blog assignment (if this is one of your 5 chosen entries)
  • Assignment due: Your own research
M 11/1: Tech Office hours: Wallenberg 125 - 7-9pm

W 11/3: Asynchronous Discussions and Forms of Representation/Persuasion

  • Assignment due: Your own research

F 11/5: workshop day


M 11/8: What is a Wiki?

 
T 11/9: Tech Office hours: Wallenberg 125 - 7-9pm

W 11/10: Collaboration and authority

  • Reading due: Your own research

F 11/12: workshop day


M 11/15: Persona, Text & 3D visualization

W 11/17: From Hypertext to Multi-media Delivery

  • Sufen- Aaron
  • Lisa - Rana
  • Richard - Fred
  • Chun Kai - Wynn
  • Ryan - Edmond
  • Tony - Matt
  • Oleg - Rong
  • Carly - Pawel
  • Claudia - Rowyn
  • Mickey - Carrie
  • Jon - Tina
  • John - Stephanie
  • Chaitu - Ara - Daniel (Chaitu read Ara; Ara read Daniel; Daniel read Chaitu)

F 11/19: Creating effective oral presentations

  • Writing due: Peer review the hypertext of your peer review partner (partners listed below); in his/her forum folder, post a message that includes an overview of your assessment of his/her hypertext as well as a list of three things you really liked about his/her hypertext and 3 things you think still need further revision. Please be specific and detailed in your lists -- generalizations aren't all that much help.
    • Lisa - Oleg - Mickey (Lisa read Oleg, Oleg read Mickey, Mickey read Lisa)
    • Sufen - Rowyn
    • Matt - Chaitu
    • Richard - Jon
    • Aaron - Claudia
    • Rana - Carly
    • Ryan - Ara
    • Wynn - Pawel
    • Fred - John
    • Tony - Daniel - Stephanie (Tony read Daniel; Daniel read Stephanie; Stephanie read Tony)
    • Chun Kai - Carrie
    • Edmond - Tina - Rong (Edmond read Tina, Tina read Rong, Rong read Edmond)
F 11/19: Presentation Practice sessions/OCT meetings - Wallenberg 125 -6:30 -9pm


 

M 11/22: Practicing Delivery

T 11/23: E-Rhetoric Group Presentations: Wallenberg 125: Section 8 - 7-8pm; Section 2 - 8-9pm

W 11/24: workshop day

Th 11/25: THANKSGIVING

F 11/26: No class


M 11/29: Electronic Writing and Rhetoric revisited

T 11/30: no class

W 12/1: Final Class: Redefining Rhetoric in Digital Culture

F 12/3: No Class