All the information you need for the tasks that we undertake should be available below. Since you've found this page, you're ready to go.

Week 2

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 the criteria that we will use to create and evaluate the episodes of our hyperfiction.
Week 4
Task 1
We use a forum to brainstorm and post snippets from or drafts of the episodes of our hyperfiction.
Task 2
We create the draft of the hyperfiction by adding our episodes to the story.
Week 5
Task 1
We perform peer review of the episodes of our hyperfiction.
Task 2
We submit the final versions of our hyperfiction episodes.
Week 6
Task 1
We begin working on our persuasive writing projects.
Task 2
We brainstorm about our topics and develop three research questions.
You may be interested in the transcripts of this week's class discussions:
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Week 7

Before going any further, you might want to check out the requirements for the second assignment.

In the next few weeks you'll also need to get to citation and documentation information.

Task 1
We post research queries to newsgroups.
Week 8
Task 1
We submit our list of project sources and continue working on our research papers.
Task 2
We continue working on our research papers.
Week 9
Task 1
We submit a second newsgroup query about our projects.
Task 2
We evaluate Web sites to prepare for translating our projects to the Web.
Week 10
Task 1
We begin translating our projects into hypertexts.
Task 2
We continue to work on our Web arguments.
Week 11
Task 1
We keep working on our Web arguments.
Task 2
We do peer reviews and offer advice about our Web arguments.
Week 12
Task 1
We go through the drafts of our Web arguments.
Task 2
We continue to work on our Web arguments and begin developing our final, Informative writing projects.
Week 13
Task 1
We continue working on our Web projects.
Task 2
We check the final vesions of our persuasive Web projects and continue working on our informative Web sites.
Week 14
Task 1
We continue working on our final projects.
Task 2
We offer peer review of the drafts of our final projects.
Week 15
Task 1
We continue working on our final projects.
Task 2
We wrap it up.
For reference, there is a link to the assignments from the Fall of 1996.
Hyperwriting Home Creative Writing Persuasive Writing Informative Writing Projects Assignments

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