Readings and materials will be provided in handouts and online.

Works on WCW practice

• Writing Effective Hypertext, Alysson Troffer.
• Editing Online Documents: Strategies and Tips, Alysson Troffer. pdf
• Web Style Guide, Lynch and Horton. If you're serious about web writing and design, buy the book.
• Jakob Nielsen's collection on web content writing
  • Differences Between Print Design and Web Design, Neilsen
  • Microcontent, Neilsen
  • Using Link Titles [Linktext], Neilsen
• Resources at HotText, Price and Price.
• Contentious, an online journal addressing web content writing.

• Patterns of Hypertext, Bernstein. A handlist of rhetorical figures of hypertext design. Identifies and describes a set of patterns found in structuring essays and structuring sites.

• Hypertext Gardens A hypertext essay on writing and structuring hypertext essays, opting for - and demonstrating - structure in irregularity.

• A Rhetoric of Objects, Price.

• Rhetorics of the Web: Hyperreading and Critical Literacy, Nicholas C. Burbules

• Rhetorics of the Web: Implications for Teachers of Literacy, Doug Brent. Selected pages. For basis of hypertext, and example of hypertext essay. Provides background for Troffer and Bernstein. Follow the four links from the Further Discussion page. Brent touches on problems in reading and writing hypertext that Troffer et al address in writing hypertext: organization, reading paths, and the writer's guidance.

• http://www.e-gineer.com/v1/articles/web-writing-for-many-interest-levels.htm
• http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1997/jun/bauman.html