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Choose three print documents that you have already written to put on the Web. These might be papers or reports you've written for classes, stories, personal memories, arguments, etc.

In this assignment, you'll create a set of visual teasers, verbal blurbs, summaries and banners to encourage visitors to your Web site to click to and read your documents from the top level of your site. Since they represent and advertise different pieces of writing, the visuals should be distinct from each other, but they should also work as a matched set of images on the main page where they appear together. More...

Using Photoshop and Dreamweaver, take the content of an verbal text (your own or someone else's) and create a series of hypertext screens that realize the original's effects by "visualizing" it. That is, rather than just pasting the words into a long, continuous online document, use visual design to help create meaning, including images, various fonts, contrasting sizes and colors, layout, backgrounds, layering, visual heirarchies, etc. More...

In this assignment, you'll create a parody of some digital genre--for example, an eBay auction page, a personal Web site, a blog--in the voice and style of a character who is not you.

As this ficticious author speaks through the words, images and design of this work, however, the author reveals more about him/herself than he/she realizes.

Basically, you'll use the page or site to reveal the facade of the character, and bring the reader to an understanding that undercuts or enlarges the meaning intended by the ficticious authors.

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A Defining Example of New Media Writing

In a five-to-seven page essay (double spaced, at least 1,300 words), look at a single example of "New Media Writing" to identify and understand one defining technique, issue, problem or principle.

Support your definition with at least five quotations from Janet Murray's book, or some other academic analysis of New Media. More...

In a hypertext fiction, place a main character in a situation that draws people together: a party, a competition, a meeting, a holiday festival. More...

Revise one of your previous projects with a new vision of what you want to do.

By "ReVision," I don't mean a revision that fixes up a previous project with lots of local corrections and improvements. Instead, ReVision entails a global transformation in the idea or strategy you pursue in the project, which will require changes throughout. This might be a better, more complete vision of what the original assignment asked for, or it might be a further goal or intention for the project. More...