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Your course assignments fall into two major categories: 1) theoretical/rhetorical assignments, in which you’re typically required to analyze, critique, justify, or simply explain something, such as a website or a design concept; 2) practical ssignments, which often involve coding. The total number of points for all your projects added together is 1,000.

Getting a Web Host (50 Points)
Option 1: Use GSUCREATE
Go to create.gsu.edu and create a web account.

Option 2: Obtain a domain name and hosting account
There’re many web hosts out there. You might want to do some comparison shopping. One I’d recommend is bluehost.

White Paper (200 points)
This assignment has three parts:

Part I: Online Paper (100 Points) 
Pick a concept related to web design. Do research on this concept. Then write an informative paper that includes a definition, background and history, main principles associated with it, and resources on the concept. 

Part II: Oral Presentation (100 Points) 
You’ll do an oral presentation in which you’ll “teach” your classmates what this concept entails and how to apply it in digital design. 

Good Design Justification (200 points)
Find a website that you think is really well designed and write a justification of why you think this is good design.

Planning (50 Points)
This assignment prepares you for the online portfolio project. It contains the following components:

1. Card sorting—figuring out the main components of your site and sort these into meaningful groups
2. Prototyping—creating a static design as a prototype for your home page

Digital Profile (100 Points)
Create a digital profile of yourself. The nature of this profile should be professional and should serve the overall purposes of the online portfolio. It should be somewhere between 500 and 1000 words, with appropriate headings.

Online Portfolio (400 points)
For this project, you will create an online portfolio that will effectively market you for your career goals. The content of the portfolio will depend on what you want to do after you graduate from the current program. If you’re a Master’s student, for example, you may pursue further study at the PhD level, or apply for a teaching position in the academia, or seek a position in the industry such as technical writer, newspaper reporter, or journal editor. If you’re a PhD student, most likely you will be seeking teaching positions, although industry jobs are also a possibility. Your portfolio will then be effectively tailored to your career objective.

This project has two components:

• Online portfolio
• Rhetorical analysis

Current projects:
This is where I’m going to link all your final projects.