Week 1

This assignment treats two readings and asks students to do some preliminary web research.

Task 1

Here we look at some possible sources to incorporate into a hyperfiction and brainstorm about themes characters and plots.

Task 2

Here we look at some hyperfictions and post our ideas to a web message forum.

Week 3

Task 1

Here we look at some readings on intellectual property.

Task 2

Some web resources and tasks for talking about Michael Joyce's Afternoon.

Postings of the Drafts

Students, please use the form to post your drafts

Week 4

Drafting the Hyperfiction

We use a prototype of the hyperfiction mechanism to begin working with the story

Week 5

Task 1

Working in groups we edit the draft of the hyperfiction.

Task 2

We post the final version of the hyperfiction.

Week 6

Task 1

We work to develop topics for a persuasive paper.

Task 2

We focus our topics into research questions.

You'll also need citation and documentation information.

Week 7

Task 1

We post queries about our topics to Usenet newsgorups.

Task 2

We post our drafts and do peer review.

Week 8

Task 1

We hold discussions on Internet censorship and affirmative action.

Week 9

Task 1

We begin translating our essays into hyperarguments.

Task 2

We compose some HTML files.

Week 10

Task 1

We continue working on our hyperarguments.

Week 11

Task 1

We look at the drafts of our hyperarguments and continue revising.

Week 12

Task 1

We finish our hyperarguments.

Week 13

Task 1

We begin the informative writing assignment.

Task 2

We continue thinking about informative writing.

Week 14

Task 1

We continue the informative writing assignment.

Week 15

Task 1

We review each other's informative writing assignments.

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Modified 11/14/96
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