English 8121. Digital Rhetoric

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Official Course Description

Study of scientific and technical styles; practice in various formats including reports, proposals, instructional manuals, and professional papers.

My Spin

This course is devoted to the examination of various issues concerning the “new” medium of electronic writing and publishing. The main objective of the course is to help you become theoretically well versed with the various theories about and rhetorical principles underlying electronic writing and electronic technologies and practically adept at using the new technologies and this new medium. This course consists of both readings in theoretical studies of the electronic medium and practically oriented projects where you apply such theoretical knowledge.