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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 and windows. More...

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 hooks, verbal "blurbs" and summaries/teasers that encourage visitors to a Web site to click down into your documents and read them. 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...

Write an five-to-seven page essay (double spaced) on a problem in New Media Writing.

"New Media Writing," you'll remember, is kind(s) of writing done in digital environments, using both verbal and visual languages, in contrast to writing done for traditional, more stable print genres.

A "problem" is a difficulty experienced in writing, reading and/or conceptualizing writing in digital formats for online audiences. Such problems are often the result of a clash/integration of old and new practices of writing and reading. More...

Narrative Interactivity

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 what you've learned so far. This revision will be judged by the degree of improvement over the original, rather than on the original scale. Your annotation of the revision should therefore be detailed and persuasive, and refer not only to the criteria of the original assginment, but to what you've learned subsequently. More...