Writing and Publishing [for Cyberspace]

Keith Dorwick

Summer Semester, 1995: Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30-4:00

Texts:

Writing For the World: Student Writing For and On the Internet, a set of links to student texts all over the WWW

Some Helpful WWW pages:

Netscape page for New Webspinners

A Beginner's Guide to html

Computers: Internet

Computers: World-Wide-Web
 
 

Software:

html Assistant or its equivalent for other platforms

Academic dishonesty (including plagiarism) will earn you a failing grade for the course. The UIC Undergraduate Catalog defines academic dishonesty under the section, "Guidelines Regarding Academic Integrity," and is available for purchase in the UIC bookstore.

What I Asked My Students to Do:

I asked class members to include two tasks as part of our syllabus: after determining the attendance policies, assignments, and means of evaluation (including grading), we had to rewrite this document, using the original as a template. I also asked each student to write a World-Wide-Web (WWW) document using html and multiple screens, whether or not those screens are themselves edited by the student: the goal is to create a document that could be not issued in print, one that pushes writing and publishing beyond the capacity of paper texts and hardcopy publishing. The student projects will be published on the Internet in The English 214 Gallery, open to all the people who use the Internet world wide.

Attendance: The first, second, and eighth week are mandatory; we will meet in Scailab for this course. Students may meet in Scailab or work on their own during weeks three through seven.

What the Class Members Decided to Do:

Proposals for the WWW Project(s) Due June 22, 1995

Grading and Assignments:
 
 
• WWW Project(s) Due by July 18, 1995 at 1:30 p.m. --- 75% of the final grade

 

 
 
 

• For their final projects, the students decided to include a minimum of 25 links of 2 different types (i.e., jumping to a text and including an image file).

 

 
 
 

• They also decided to write a paper detailing their experiences in this course and their reaction to it. This paper will be 500-1000 words in length and worth 15% of the final grade. It is due 9:00 a.m., Thursday, July 20, 1995.

 

 
 
 

• The students also decided to have a score for participation/discussion on the WWWwrite list: 10% of the final grade.

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