About

Hey class,

Welcome to the blog.  This is one of those ‘composing spaces’ we were talking about– a digital space where we will get together to post entries on readings, propose project ideas (and comment on them), and link to interesting class-related bits we find on the web. It will run in  tandem with our course wiki here. Feel free to use both however is most convenient

 

This blog was created for the English 3416: Writing and Editing in Print and Online class that meets at 10:10-11:00 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

The primary purpose of Writing and Editing in Print and Online includes:

(1) helping students understand principles of composing, especially as they compare across different composing spaces

(2) writing for each of three spaces—print (including posters); screen; and network

(3) editing the texts deployed in each appropriately.

To accomplish these goals, we’ll engage with multiple kinds of texts—reading some, writing some, talking about some, creating digital forms of some. In all these processes, we’ll be developing a language that we can use to describe those texts and interactions and to describe what happens to them and to us when we do this work. If we succeed in these efforts, you’ll find that you are creating and reading texts differently; that you are much more informed about how others will read your texts; and that you bring a new theory and intentionality to your composing and editing.

Good luck!