Instructor: Daniel Anderson e-mail: iamdan@mail.utexas.edu

Office hours: Thursday 11:00-2:00 in Parlin 408 (also Parlin 6 and Fac 8)

Policy Statement

Attendance:

Each student will be allowed three absences with no penalty. Any additional unexcused absences may result in the lowering of half a letter from the student's final grade. Attendance will be taken using Daedalus Mail. Students are responsible for reading the daily mail message so that their attendance will be recorded.

Dishonesty:

Students are bound by the Division of Rhetoric and Composition's Statement on Scholastic Responsibility. You should read and understand the statement, before signing and returning it to me.

Assignments:

* Each student will work on four major projects during the course. These projects consist of two traditional papers and two electronic projects.

* Student will also be required to submit a portfolio of informal writing samples three times a semester.

* Students will also be required to serve as editors for a class web site.

* Students are required to complete the various reading assignments throughout the semester.

Grading:

* The individual projects will be given a letter grade.

* Each student will receive an individual letter grade for work in the two informal portfolio submissions. These two submission grades will be averaged into an informal writing grade.

* The editorial service for the class web site will be evaluated and given a letter grade.

* The best five from the six major grades--the four project grades, the informal writing grade and the editorial grade--will be averaged into a final grade for the class.

Materials

E309M Course Packet, available at the Texas Union copy center.

Computation Center IF account, available at the SMF (2nd floor of the UGL).

Several 3.5" high density diskettes.

Schedule

Part 1: Media and Hypermedia

Week 1 (8/31): Introductions

Reading: Handout from Time magazine.

Week 2 (9/5 & 9/7): Activity: web editorial assignments. Intro. to the web. Reading: Web Materials on the Cyberporn controversy

Project 1, a hypertext, assigned

Week 3 (9/12 &9/14): Activity: Introduction to hypertext; Rhetoric.

Reading: This is not a Textbook, Outside research on Cyberporn controversy.

Week 4 (9/19 & 9/21): Activity: Work on Project 1.

Reading: Fly me to the MOO, Rape in Cyberspace (?)

9/21: Draft of Project 1 due.

Part 2: Compositions and Conversations

Week 5 (9/26 & 9/28): Activity: Introduction to MOOs and MUDs. Introduction to newsgroups.

Project 1 due 9/26. Project 2, a rhetorical analysis, assigned.

Week 6 (10/3 &10/5): Moos and Newsgroups

Week 7 (10/10 & 10/12): Moos and Newsgroups. Analysis. Work on Project 2. Reading: TBA

Draft of Project 2 due.

Part 3: Varieties of Rhetoric: Composition in Text, Film and Hypermedia

Week 8 (10/17 & 10/19): Activity: Film: TBA.

Reading: TBA

Project 2 due. Project 3, an evaluation or analysis, assigned.

Week 9 (10/24 & 10/26): Activity: Analyzing a film

Week 10 (10/31 & 11/2): Activity: Analyzing other forms of discourse.

work on project three.

Draft of project 3 due.

Week 11 (11/7 & 11/9): Activity: work on project 3.

Project 3 due.

Part 4: Culture and Composition on the World Wide Web

Week 12 (11/14 & 11/16): Activity: Introduction to Web authoring.

Project 4, a collaborative project, assigned.

Topic proposals for project 4 due

Week 13 (11/21): Activity: Work on final project. Happy Thanksgiving!

Week 14 (11/28 & 11/30): Activity: Work on final project. Thursday: Small

group workshop on draft of final project.

Draft of project 4 due.

Week 15 (12/5 & 12/7): Activity: work on final projects

Final Projects due.