ELECTRONIC WRITING AND ETHOS: HYPERTEXTS & WEB AUTHORSHIP
IN CLASS: Medium, Genre, & Questions of Style; Organization of Argument
OUT OF CLASS: Independent research on your project; optional conference with Christine or an OCT on proposal presentation; outlining and drafting your research paper

M Feb 6: Establishing authority and electronic writing

Reading Due: Research Paper assignment; review Parker and additional PowerPoint readings that you did for last Wednesday's class; read through the Group B posts from last week on the eRhetBlog

W Feb 8: Organization of information - the structure of argument

Reading Due: Sample research papers: David Craig, "Instant Messaging: The Language of Youth Literacy" (Boothe Prize Honorable Mention, 2003); Ali Batouli, "The Free Internet: An Instrument of Control" (Boothe Prize Winner, 2004); "Beginning and Ending a Hyperbook: Possibilities for Authors" from Electronic Labyrinth

Writing Due: Group C post on eRhetBlog by 9am today

Fr Feb 10: Beginnings and Endings: effective introductions & conclusions