• Writing Due: Student Information sheet (print out: turn in paper copy); First blog entry
• Reading Due:Browse websyllabus and links; Blog assignment sheet; Research project general assignment sheet; Visit E-Rhet window on the week and save it as a "favorite" on your browser
• Assignment Due: Register on the class discussion Forum

M 1/10: How Technology Changes Research and Writing

• Reading Due: Research Proposal assignment; Gup, "The End of Serendipity"; Julian Dibbell, "The Writer a la Modem; Or, the Death of the Author on the Installment Plan"; and at least two articles from Green Squiggly Lines such as the section entitled "Writing Without Fear circa 1982: The Word Processor" or "Microsoft Word: Computers as Readers"
• Writing Due: Jan 10 Blog entry
• Recommended reading: Envision chs. 4 & 5

• Reading due:
  • Jakob Nielsen, "How Users Read on the Web," Alertbox, October 1, 1997
  • "Applying Writing Guidelines to Web Pages," John Morkes and Jakob Nielsen, Jan. 6, 1998.
  • "Writing Hypertext Copy."
• Assignment due: From your reading, generate a list of your top 6 rules for Writing on the Web. Post in your Forum folder.

• Writing Due: Research proposal due (post in Forum folder).
• Reading due: Research proposal presentation assignment; Martha Sammons handout; Group webpage assignment

M 1/17: Martin Luther King Day: No Class

T1/18:

• Assignment due: All student proposal presentation materials due today - post any script & materials to Forum folder by 6pm.

W 1/19: Presentations of Student Research Proposals

• Reading due: Translation assignment sheet
• Writing due: Blog assignment (if this is one of your 5 chosen entries)

F 1/21: Presentations of Student Research Proposals

• Reading due: Media Translation Analysis assignment

M 1/24: Presentations of Student Research Proposals |Effective Use of Oral & Visual Rhetoric

• Reading due: note reading added: Andrea Lunsford & John Ruszkiewicz, "Spoken Arguments"
• Writing due: Blog assignment; note new due date: Translation Assignment (in your Forum folder)
• Assignment due: Your own research

• Readings due: Edward Tufte, The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint; Ian Parker, "Absolute PowerPoint," The New Yorker 28 May 2001: 76-87; Stephen Shugart, "Beyond PowerPoint," Educator's Voice, August 15, 2001.
• Assignment due: Your own research

• Writing due: note new due date: Media Translation Analysis (in your Forum folder)
• Assignment due: Your own research

M 1/31: Hypertext and the Reading Experience

• Readings due: Research Hypertext assignment; selections from Michael Cripps, "Hypertext Theory and WebDev in the Composition Classroom", including (but not limited to) all the main nodes under the "theory" and "models" subtopics.
• Assignment due: Your own research; Select one quote from the "theory" section of Cripps that you found confusing or enlightening (you may write on this in your blog post for this week if you like).
• Writing due: Blog assignment (if this is one of your 5 chosen entries)

• 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: p. 232-237; p.251-263)
• 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: be sure to include links to the pages or sites that you are referring to for each feature (post on Forum)

• Reading due: "Multimedia Design"
• Assignment due: Your own research

M 2/7: Research hypertexts

• Reading due: Sample student hypertexts: click through the hypertexts linked through the Winter 2004 E-Rhetoric group pages: select one individual student hypertext to focus on.
• Assignment due: Your own research; After browsing the student page, make a list of 3 features (total) that you like about the hypertext you looked at (i.e., that you like so much that you might even experiment with those features in your own hypertext), and then 3 things that you don't like as much that you will avoid in your own hypertext. Have reasons (rhetorically sound ones) for your preferences and dislikes & be sure to include links to the sites and/or pages to which you are referring. Please post this list of 6 items (total) in your Forum folder.
• Presentations today:
  • Section 2: Ting, Nick, Sarah

W 2/9: On-Line Communications - Conventions of E-Mail, IM, and Blogs

• Reading due: "Blah Blah Blah Blog" from Wired News, Feb 18 2002
• Writing due: Blog assignment (if this is one of your 5 chosen entries: originally due onthe 7th, but you can use this as your new due date if you'd like)
• Assignment due: Your own research
• Presentations today:
  • Section 2: Will, Fred
  • Section 7: Julie, Jonathon, Craig

F 2/11: Asynchronous Discussions and Forms of Representation/Persuasion

• Writing due: Homepage and two nodes (link through Forum and print out to turn in)
• Assignment due: Your own research
• Presentations today:
  • Section 2: Justin, Bret, Derek
  • Section 7: Beth, Nathania, Hialy

M 2/14: Hypertext workshop day

• Reading due: Sample student hypertexts: click through the hypertexts linked through the Fall 2004 E-Rhetoric group pages and select one student hypertext to focus on.
• Assignment due: Your own research; After browsing the student site you selected, make a list of 3 features (total) that you like about that individual hypertext (i.e., that you like so much that you might even experiment with those features in your own hypertext), and then 3 things that you don't like as much that you will avoid in your own hypertext. Have reasons (rhetorically sound ones) for your preferences and dislikes & be sure to include links to the sites and/or pages to which you are referring. Please post this list of 6 items (total) in your Forum folder. (If this assignment sounds familiar, please note that you completed a similar one for last Friday's class -- the difference is that you'll be looking at a different group of hypertexts for today)
• Writing due: Four more nodes (link through Forum).
• Presentations today:
  • Section 2: Evan, Jason
  • Section 7: Liz, Braelan, Nikolas

• Reading due: "What is a Wiki?" from Extremetech; "The Faith-Based Encyclopedia" (sent via e-mail to students)
• Writing due: Blog assignment (if this is one of your 5 chosen entries - originally due on 2/14 but okay to turn in for today)
• Presentations today:
  • Section 2: Adam, Dan
  • Section 7: Saffronia, Ray, Chris

• Reading due: "Blah Blah Blah Blog" from Wired News, Feb 18 2002 and one other blog article from the blog prompt for Feb 7
• Writing due: Three more nodes (link through Forum)
• Presentations today:
  • Section 2: Yi Lang, Lisa
  • Section 7: David, Stacy, Andrew

M 2/21: President's Day - No Class

T 2/22: No Class

• Writing due: Draft of hypertext (link through Forum); Blog assignment (mandatory - all students)

W 2/23: From Hypertext to Multi-media Delivery

• Reading due: Group Presentation assignment

F 2/25: Creating effective oral presentations

• Writing due: Peer review form

M 2/28: Collaborations - working with groups and OCTs on Group Presentations

• Assignment due: Peer review the hypertext of your peer review partner from the other section; 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 (linking to specific pages where possible)-- generalizations aren't all that much help.

F 3/4: workshop day

• Writing due: Presentation reflection letter (print out)

M 3/7: Electronic Writing and Rhetoric revisited: Hypertext and forms of argument

• Reading due: Final Reflection Essay

T 3/8: No class

• Assignment due: Group Webpage (should be live, linked through your group space on the Forum. Also, one group member should burn it onto a CD with any images and turn it in Wednesday on his/her hypertext CD)

W 3/9: Final Class

• Writing Due: Research hypertext revision: link it on-line through Forum and burn it on to a CD to turn in at class
  

F 3/11: No Class

• Writing Due: Final Reflection Essay to Forum (as attached .doc) by 5pm