week 1 : 30 march
Course Introduction

• Review syllabus
• Review types of stories/content
  • Business genre:
    Employment Documents
    Financial Documents
    Instructional Documents
    Letters
    Memos and E-Mail
    Oral Presentations
    Policy, Manuals, and Handbooks
    Promotional Materials
    Proposals
    Reports
    ???
  • Fiction genre:
    Novel
    Novella
    Movie
    Poem
    Short story
    TV show
    ???
  • Commercial genre
    Billboard
    Bumper sticker
    Classifieds
    Magazine ad
    Radio commercial
    TV commercial
    ??
  • Nonfiction genre
    Essay
    Feature
    News
    Op-Ed
    Review
    ???
• Set up Blogger accounts

Assignments

• Please send your project team names before Monday. Teams should be composed of three class members; only one team should have four people.
• Share your blog name and URL via ePost no later than Friday 2 April.
• Identify three types of stories (content) that interests you as a content creator. Provide the story/content name, URL, abstract, and a statement of what sparked your interest.
  (please ePost by 6pm on Monday)
• Identify at least one possible topic/direction for your individual project for the quarter.
  (please eSubmit by 6pm on Monday)
• Reading:
  Explore this site/journal: Kairos.
  Explore this site/journal: RhetNet
  Read at least one article that relates to this course topic. Review the article - recommending whether or not others should read it. Comment on the differences in the content and content presentation of the two sites/journals.
  (please ePost by 6pm on Monday)