From DigitalRhetoricCollaborative

ENGL 4832W: Writing for the Web

“Rhetoric, Writing, and Tools: A Tag-Team Rhet/Comp and Digital Humanities Hybrid” In Spring 2015, the English Department will offer two sections of ENGL 4832W: Writing for the World Wide Web. These two courses, which will meet at the same time, will be team-taught by Drs. Elizabeth Davis and Sara Steger, who will bring their specialized knowledge of digital rhetorical theory and digital humanities tools and techniques to both classrooms. Drs. Davis and Steger will alternate teaching in the two sections, and students in the classes will learn not only how to craft effective texts for the web, they will also learn about the latest cutting-edge technologies for textual editing, archiving, data visualization/mapping, remediation, and locative media. These kinds of tools enable us to expand our definition of “writing” in the digital media age and help us create texts that better take advantage of the affordances of digital media for all kinds of rhetorical purposes - storytelling, persuading, informing, and entertaining. The classes will thus focus on both rhetorical and media theory and praxis as we focus on how to redefine what it means to write “for the Web.

“From a humanities perspective, the design of digital objects is a cultural practice like writing a book or making a film.” -- Janet Murray ^[1]

“I am moving away from asking students to write, toward asking them instead to weave - to build, to fabricate, to design” -- Mark L. Sample ^[2]