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Periodically, I’ll upload some of my lecture notes here. Most of these will be downloadable Word or PowerPoint files. This should save you some time in note taking. You’re more than welcome to download these files for personal use.

A Disclaimer: most of these handouts are rather informal. The information contained therein is usually not tested by rigorous research but just personal reflections on certain issues and readings.

Digital Rhetoric Primer
For those of you who haven’t taken 8121, Digital Rhetoric, here’s a quick primer on “digital rhetoric”:

• Digital Rhetoric, Part 1: History, Definitions, and Scope
• Digital Rhetoric, Part 2: Principles and Methods

Information Architecture
Here’re some sources on information architecture.

• Information Architecture 101: Techniques and Best Practices by Cameron Chapman
• Information Architecture Tutorial by Webmonkey

What’s contained in this file are some brief notes on cascading style sheets. It’s intended to serve as a reminder once you have mastered the basics of CSS. It’s not intended as a tutorial.

PHP

• PHP 5 Introduction (W3Schools)
• PHP 5 Tutorial (W3Schools)
• Learn PHP Programming (Codecademy)

MySQL

• PHP MySQL Introduction (W3Schools)

XML

• XML Introduction (W3Schools)
• XML Tutorial (W3Schools)