Assignments

Note: Numbered items are Major Projects. Indented, non-numbered items in the yellow fields are Exercises. See the grades section of the syllabus for point values.

1. Electronic Annotation of a Text

due Thursday, January 30

On the Web, create an electronic version of a single, linear text that would benefit from linked annotations to supplemental words, images, maps, etc. on other Web pages. More...

2. Verbal as Visual

Using Photoshop and Dreamweaver, take the content of an "old media," verbal text and create a series of hypertext screens that realize the original's effects by "visualizing" its verbal elements (letters, words, passages) using font, size, color, placement, backgrounds, layering, etc. More...

3. From Linear Print Text to Hypertext Web Site

Write a linear essay, memoir, argument or article, and then "remediate" the material into a non-linear, hypertextual Web site or CD-ROM. More...

4. Textual Interactivity

Create a hypertext specifically written and designed to depend upon interactive possibilities: the actions and choices of the reader/user. In other words, the meaning and effect of the hypertext will vary as the reader consciously creates his/her way through the page or site. More...

5. Analytical Essay from a Discussion

From our discussions online of our readings, write an essay for print in which you appear not as the sole voice, but as one voice among several considering some question or issue important to New Media Writing. More...