Week 1: Thurs 12 Jan

• Course Statement?
• Course Readings?
• review formatting and linking by setting up your WCW Home page.

For review and reference: Materials from Elements of E-Rhetoric Course

• Rhetorical Elements of Weblogs
• Email Index to readings and pages
• Web Design Index to readings, especially Casting visitors in roles
• Method
  • description to analysis to interpretation. neutral language in description. looking for patterns.
  • taking a balcony view: standing outside the rhetorical situation

Week of Tues, 17 Jan'''

• Look around the WCW wiki, and start to gather links and materials that might be useful onto your home page.
• We'll talk about the My Weekly Reader Project? and decide on the first group of editors
• We'll start the How To Project?

for Thurs, Jan 19

in class

• Look at VisualHierarchy
• fun with tables!
• How-To Examples Exercise page has the assigmment for Thursday. Due at classtime.

We'll spend the class session looking at the how-to pages you select: describing and analyzing how they handle organization, links, images, text, and supplemental material - essentially testing (or tempering?) typical advice with observed rhetorical practice. Note rhetorical elements or matters that you want us to look at and consider.

for Tues 24 Jan

• How To Project
• Decide on a how-to, and even start drafting on a How To Work Page?.
  • Your how to page will be named How To [do whatever]]
• locate some how-to's to get ideas and related how-to's for your own. Your how-to page will include annotated links to related pages.
• In class, we'll start with designing page layout, and tables.

read

• Lynch on cell padding and table layout
• Lynch on legibility

for Thurs

• draft ready and roughed into table
• look at / consider use of two columns: what's in which and why
• cover preparing images
• uploading
• Draft of HowToUploadImages
• ref to Placing images
• some samples in my ImageSandbox

• How To Project?
• Lynch on cell padding and table layout
• Lynch on legibility
• Placing images
• preparing images
• uploading
• Draft of HowToUploadImages
• some samples in my ImageSandbox

for Tues 31 Jan

• How to page should be well into full draft: text placed, headings formatted, structured, images placed, links to other sites cut...
• In class draft review. We'll be looking at pages to get some feedback for revision.
• Work with another person you'll take advice from.
• Print out and markup - and review on screen.
• HowToReviewCriteria

Thurs, 3 Feb

• Review and final work day: HowToReviewCriteria

with special attention to

• development: I'l' talk about this in class. steps - sequences - orders - even in lists -
• proofreading

• Visit the HowTo index page and edit your link. Compose good link text. Outside the linktext, add your name and a one sentence description.
• Vols for next Frequent Reader - to go up on 14 Feb.

• for reference ConciseScannableAndObjective (pw = readme)
• AboutBeingConcise

Tip: To keep tables from standing side-by-side, try using a break between them: use [[<<]] on it's own line.

Tues 7 Feb

• Every page looks ready. Present how to's. How To Presentation Guide?

Thurs 9 Feb

• Finish how to presentations if necessary
• Discuss Frequent Reader: Kathleen and Jenn
• Next reader: Natasha and Aaron
• News namespace
• Discussion on next project: repurposing / hypertext essay
  • 10 - 15 node (depending on length of nodes) essay / paper either repurposed for hypertext or written for hypertext.
• Writing Effective Hypertext, Alysson Troffer
• Delightful VIstas, Bernstein. Lays out the framework for our look at hypertext on web sites.
• example projects from ENGL 3160
• Example project from ENGL 4170
• Have a list of possibles or selected project in mind for Thurs, 16 Feb

Tues 14 Feb

• Class meeting cancelled: business elsewhere
• New Frequent Reader up.

Thurs 16 Feb

• look at Frequent Reader
• discussion of project plans
• rigid and organic hypertext: some examples
  • Lynch
  • Troffer
  • why teach digital writing?
  • Hypertext in the Classroom
  • Rewriting Expressivism
  • Hypertext Gardens
  • Memories, Haley Hurd
  • Apple > ipod
• method: planning / maps / stickies / storyboards
• method: start a Hypertext Project Planning Page. Use this as a notes/to do page to keep us up to date on progress.
• method: might start drafting on a single page.
  • title, description of the project, outline, content inventory, notes for planning, storing links, etc
  • 10 - 15 node (depending on length of nodes) essay / paper either repurposed for hypertext or written for hypertext.

Tues 21 Feb

• start project: replacing the sidebar
• method: create an entry point for the project. sketch out links to pages.

Thurs, 23 Feb

• workday
• New guide page: ReplacingTheSidebar with your own.

Tues 28 Feb

• review Frequent Reader. Archive. Assign next editors
• touch base: look over progress so for
• look at use and placement of links on a couple of pages

read, consult, keep at hand

• Troffer, hypertext rhetoric, pp 8 ff
• Troffer, links, pp 17 - 24, with a focus on using links to reinforce your message (19)
• Troffer, Writing style (because the writing style needs to accommodate linking) pp 23 - 30
• Troffer, Rethink notions of transitional, linear writing, pp 33 - 34

Thurs 2 Mar

• work day

Tues 7 Mar

• Erin and Angel: Frequent Reader plans?
• Substantial draft
• Look at use and placement of links, reading paths, reader options, relation of text to text: link types
• Writing styles (aka rhetorical strategies) that foster hypertextual development
• Links, Reading Paths, and A Handlist of Links

Thurs 9 Mar

• work day
• Frequent Reader up?

Tues 21 Mar

• first 15 mins: Honor's Course survey
• present hypertext essay. Use the HowToPresentationGuide to guide your presentation. But also speak to hypertextual concerns:
  • use and placement of links, reading paths you created, and relations between the text linked from to the text linked to
  • writing choices you had to make to foster hypertext development

You might review Troffer on hypertext and linking to help you talk about these matters.

• Some essays are more complete than others. For those who wish it, we'll offer some feedback (based on your presentation) and you'll have until Sunday to put the final polish on the work.

• for Thurs, take some time to read and then re-read and consider the current Frequent Reader to discuss on Thursday.

• Links, Reading Paths, and A Handlist of Links

Thurs 23 Mar

• discuss Frequent Reader: content, rationales, how linked, ...
• finish hypertext essay presentations. Again, refer to the HowToPresentationGuide in preparing.
• discussion of what's next

Sunday morning

• deadline for essay project

Tues 28 Mar

• discuss Frequent Reader: content, rationales, how linked, ...
• assign new Frequent Reader

Discussion of what's next

• your final project
  • For Tues, 4 April, create a project page for your final project. Describe what you're going to do, create a content inventory.
  • I'll set draft review and final presentation datas. sketch out a timeline.

class project (2 weeks in class): adapting work prose and documents for the web

• EFolioProject

Thurs 30 Mar

• eFolio has graciously ok'd what we're planning to do: create a composite eFolio to explore what effective portfolio writing looks like on the web. I'll talk about logging in to the eFolio in class and we'll look at what our options are and divvy up the work. If you want to see what's there so far (not a lot), go here.
• EFolioProject

• movies on the wiki. See ImageSandbox for a couple of demos.

Tues 4 April

• plans for final projects: deadline. discussion? questions?
• Jamie's eFolio so far
• plans for the next pass
• Jamie

Thurs 6 April

• Revisions to Jamie's eFolio: Jamie and admin section
• deadline for more detailed plans for final project
• start final projects over weekend
• draw up some notes for the EFolioProject page under After the fact: Some considerations.
• Kathleen's Mom's E-folio Comments?

Tues 11 April

• Workday
• Frequent Reader ready
• ReplacingTheSidebar info page

Thurs 13 April

Attandance expected: discussion

• Frequent Flier
• Final look at Jamie's efolio and
• EFolioProject: After the fact: Some considerations, advice, comments
• scheduling final presentations: April 27 and May 2