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Week I: [return to top | home]
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Monday 1/5: |
Introduction to the Course: An Inquiry into the Complex Concepts of Writing, Style, and Technology. Class introductions. About the class electronic mailing list. Introduction to my.emich.edu and people.emich.edu. Before the next class, send a brief email message about yourself to the class electronic mailing list - make a connection to the course. | |
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Wednesday 1/7: |
Troubleshoot people.emich accounts. Introduction to Blogger and related software. Introduce "Invent your own technology" assignment. First blog homework: Before the next class, post a 250 or so word message to your blog space that introduces yourself and email me the address to your blog. | |
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Friday 1/9: |
Catch up, but also begin talking about course "essay" expectations. |
Week II: [return to top | home]
| Monday 1/12: |
Discuss Dennis Baron, "From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies (Tribble and Trubek, 35- 53), and Mark Twain, "The First Writing-Machines" (Tribble and Trubek, 500-503), Eisenstein's "Some Features of Print Culture" (Tribble and Trubek, 124-134). Post a message about the reading to the class electronic mailing list before today's class. | |
| Wednesday 1/14: |
Discuss Naomi Baron, "The Art and Science of Handwriting" (Tribble and Trubek, 54-61), selection from Plato's "Phaderus" (Tribble and Trubek, 360-364), and Ong, "Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought," (Tribble and Trubek, 315-337). Post a message about the reading to the class electronic mailing list before today's class. | |
| Friday 1/16: |
Discuss selection from Plato's "Phaderus" (Tribble and Trubek, 360-364), and Ong, "Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought," (Tribble and Trubek, 315-337). Post a message about the reading to the class electronic mailing list before today's class. |
Week III: [return to top | home]
| Monday 1/19: |
Martin Luther King Holiday - No class - listen or watch something having to do with Dr. MLK and think about how he changed the world for the better. | |
| Wednesday 1/21: |
Show and tell for invented technology projects. Take notes rating others on permanence, portability, maleability, complexity. Ken's. Adam's. Paper specs - 10 pt. Palatino or Book Antiqua preferred, 1.5 line spacing - blank line between paragraphs - margins 1.25" top and left, 1" right and bottom. Work on a title. | |
| Friday 1/23: |
Peer Review for "Invent your own technology" essay. Bring four copies of your essay with you to class. Introduce personal/professional web site assignment. |
Week IV: [return to top | home]
| Monday 1/26: |
How to HTML part I: html "tags", a basic page, links and graphics. Some of this will carry over to next class. | |
| Wednesday 1/28: |
How to HTML part II: colors - text, backgrounds, etc., internal site links,
crib sheet of tags. *** For people absent on draft day - not getting/giving feedback on your draft is a big hit on your participation grade (in addition to the fact that your paper will clearly be worse for the lack of development). While you've lost some credit already, you should still share your draft, get and give feedback from four others. It is the only homework this week. |
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| Friday 1/30: |
How to HTML part III and/or tba: posting to your people.emich account |
Week V: [return to top | home]
| Monday 2/2: |
Invent your own technology assignment due! Uploading your site to people.emich.edu Introduce "Style Analysis Blog Writings" assignment. | |
| Wednesday 2/4: |
Continued discussion of and work on personal/professional web site. First entry in "Style Analysis Blog Writings" assigned and due by next Monday. By 5 pm Thursday, you need to have the first part of your personal/professional web site posted. | |
| Friday 2/6: |
Discuss Strunk and White's Elements of Style.
1) Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.
2) First blog mini-essay due Sunday night. |
Week VI: [return to top | home]
| Monday 2/9: |
Joseph Williams, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, preface through chapter 5. Post a message to the emailing list about the assigned readings before today's class. Second entry in "Style Analysis Blog Writings" assigned and due by next class meeting. | |
| Wednesday 2/11: |
Joseph Williams, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, preface through chapter 5 through 10. Post a message to the emailing list about the assigned readings before today's class. Third entry in "Style Analysis Blog Writings" assigned and due by next class meeting. | |
| Friday 2/13: |
Continuing Discussion of Strunk & White and Williams. |
Week VII: [return to top]
| Monday 2/16: |
Wrap-up Joseph Williams, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace. Fourth entry in "Style Analysis Blog Writings" assigned and due by next class meeting. Discuss personal/professional web site assignment. | |
| Wednesday 2/18: |
Discuss personal/professional web site assignment
(including web editing software options) and discuss essay portion of
"Style Analysis Blog Writings" assignment. Before our next class, email me your self-assessment about your progress and work in terms of the participation component of the class. |
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| Friday 2/20: |
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Winter recess: February 23 to February 29
Week VIII: [return to top]
| Monday 3/1: |
In-class work on personal/professional web site. Blog catch-up and style discussion, time allowing. | |
| Wednesday 3/3: |
All blog assignments should be completed by today. Discuss "SpiderPro 100 Dos and Don'ts of Web Design," and "From Sucky to Savvy." Post a message to the emailing list about the assigned readings before today's class. | |
| Friday 3/5: |
Peer review for "Style Analysis Blog Writings" essay. Bring four copies of your essay with you to class. |
Week IX: [return to top]
| Monday 3/8: |
Discuss Lynch and Horton's "Web Style Guide," and Mackenzie's "Web Design Tips" Post a message to the emailing list about the assigned readings before today's class . In-class work on personal/professional web site. | |
| Wednesday 3/10: |
Workshop time for your Personal/Professional
sites: |
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| Friday 3/12: |
***Essay Postponed until
Monday***Style Analysis Blog Writings Essay Due- Monday! Poster session for personal/professional web projects. You need to have a draft of your web site and the brief essay describing your changes completed by today. |
Week X: [return to top]
| Monday 3/15: |
Style Analysis Blog Writings
Essay Due! Discuss Sosnoski's "Hyper-readers and their Reading Engines" (Tribble and Trubek, 400-417), and Mitchell Stephens "Complex Seeing: A New Form" (Tribble and Trubek, 418-442). Post a message to the emailing list about the assigned readings before today's class. |
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| Wednesday 3/17: |
Discuss "Reading Screens" (Tribble
and Trubek, 375-378), and Johnson's "Links" (Tribble and Trubek,
195-213). Post a message to the emailing list about the assigned readings
before today's class. |
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| Friday 3/19: |
Personal/Professional
Website Structure Due! You should have 2 texts posted along with the structure:
1) an intro to the site as course portfolio, and 2) your short essay detailing
your design of the site (see PPWS assignment
for details - I've highlighted these points). Discuss Landow's "Twenty Minutes into the Future, or How Are We Moving Beyond the Book?" (Tribble and Trubek, 214-226). Post a message to the emailing list about the assigned readings before today's class. |
Week XI: [return to top]
| Monday 3/22: |
Discuss Baker's "Deadline" (Tribble and Trubek, 9-34) and Birkerts' "Into the Electronic Millennium" (Tribble and Trubek, 62-74). Post a message to the emailing list about the assigned readings before today's class. | |
| Wednesday 3/24: |
No Class -- I'm away at a conference -- use
the time to draft your Cyberculture Essay and to work on your websites
-- draft of the paper is due next week. |
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| Friday 3/26: |
No Class -- I'm away at a conference -- use
the time to draft your Cyberculture Essay and to work on your websites --
draft of the paper is due next week. |
Week XII: [return to top]
| Monday 3/29: |
Discussion of Cyberculture Essay ideas, web portfolio revisions and revisions/reflections/contextualization of essays in the portfolio. | |
| Wednesday 3/31: |
Peer review part I for "Cyberculture
and English Culture" essay. Bring three copies of your essay
with you to class. |
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| Friday 4/2: |
Peer review part II for "Cyberculture and
English Culture" essay. More on issues of development and application
of course ideas. |
Week XIII: [return to top]
| Monday 4/5: |
Cyberculture Essays due. Revising for Style vs Purpose Assignment -- find and revise passages from one of your previous papers, at least one of each. | |
| Wednesday 4/7: |
Web Workshop: putting the revision examples
onto the web -- bring examples to class (email the the texts to yourself). |
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| Friday 4/9: |
Web Workshop: putting the revision examples
onto the web continued plus Web Portfolio worktime -- bring examples to
class (email the the texts to yourself). |
Week XIV: [return to top]
| Monday 4/12: |
Show and Tell of Revision Examples part I. |
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| Wednesday 4/14: |
Show and Tell of Revision Examples part II. |
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| Friday 4/16: |
Last Day of Class -- web troubleshooting and
help. |
Week XV: [return to top]
| Monday 4/19: |
Finish up your Web Portfolio. | |
| Wednesday 4/21: |
1:00-2:30 Exam time -- as Professor Krause
says, "The End of Time" |
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| Friday 4/23: |
You've been done for two days. |