Upcoming Readings on Design

Hi Everyone,


Please note the "design handouts" listed on the schedule can actually be accessed online and should be read online. For Monday, please read "Hyperlinks are the 'Tubes' of the Internet," and "Page Titles, Headlines, and Subheaders, OH MY!"

For Wednesday, read "Damnit, Jim, I'm a Writer, Not a Graphic Designer! (Or, Who Gives a CRAP?)," and "It's Not Plagiarism If It's on the Web, Right?"

Each of these readings is made up of multiple small sections, so make sure you go through everything. You'll also want to click on some of the links, especially examples of poor or successful design. No reading response on these, But you still need to read through these thoroughly and apply what you've learned to the work you're doing on Project 2.

By the way, all of these readings are from an open-source, free writing textbook called Writing Spaces. It has helpful chapters on a lot of topics. So you might save a link to it for future writing questions, just as you should also remember the Purdue OWL as a great resource.

We also have a specific milestone to meet by Monday for Project 2. The schedule asks for a "text of each group member's contribution & summary of the argument." You don't have to turn in anything formal/or post to your blog but I do want each of you to be able to show me what you've accomplished so far. Your individual literacy history should be very well developed at this point, and you should have 2-3 paragraphs in which you try to synthesize each group member's history, connect it all with the conversation already in progress (literacy in flux/literacIES/brandt, baron, wysocki, etc.), and try to make an overall claim about literacy-how you define it, how it works, etc. I think most of you are on target for meeting this milestone. But please come and talk to me if you need help.



Have a good weekend!