Introductory Questionnaire
By Tomorrow: Email you answers to these Questions to me.
Discourse Community
Decide who your Community of Discourse will be and be ready to discuss in class next week.
Discussion Group: Findings
How to join: I will send an invitation to join our Discussion Group to the email address from which you send me your responses to the questionnaire. Reply to that email to JOIN OUR GROUP. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WritingOnline2007b/
(Note: they say you don't have to have a Yahoo account to participate, but, in practice you do. The good news is that is free, and easy to set up. Go to: http://mail.yahoo.com/)
By Friday, Midnight: Find something online that demonstrates an interesting evolution of communication in digital media. This week is a free-for-all; anything goes. Post the url of your finding with a discussion of why it is worth thinking about.
Where to post (as "reply" to this topic): FINDINGS.0 = Interesting Online Apparitions http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WritingOnline2007b/message/2
By Sunday, Midnight: Post response(s) to someone else's Finding ("reply" to their "reply" to the original topic).
Discussion Group: Readings
"What's Next for Text?" by Richard A. Lanham, in The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information
http://www.rhetoricainc.com/eofa/
Universal City Studios v. Reimerdes, 111 F.Supp.2d 294, 326 (S.D.N.Y. 2000).
http://cryptome.org/mpaa-v-2600-bac.htm
Concentrate on the "Argument" part of the case.
By Friday: Post a response to these readings in our discussion group as a reply to this topic: Readings #1: "What's Next for Text?" and "Universal v. Reimerdes" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WritingOnline2007b/message/1
By Sunday: Post a response to someone else's response.
Come to class prepared with a question, observation ... something to say. You will be asked to share your thoughts, and are expected to be involved in the conversation.
related reading, not required
Lanaham's "paramedic method" from Revising Prose: http://www.rhetoricainc.com/rp4excerpt.html