New Media Writing

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Compose texts in multiple genres, using multiple modes with attention to rhetorical situations.
• Apply terms and methodologies of new media publishing practices.
• Illustrate awareness of the basics of HTML, CSS, and markdown syntax.
• Demonstrate facility with the composition and network affordances of a variety of web-based publishing platforms.
• Practice writing as a process, recursively implementing strategies of research, drafting, revision, editing, and reflection.
• Employ appropriate and effective drafting/storyboarding methods through multiple stages of diverse new media projects.
• Summarize, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate the ideas of others as you undertake scholarly inquiry in order produce your own arguments.
• Collaborate to create interactive texts for different audiences and purposes.
• Design effective graphical, multimedia, hypertextual and interactive elements.
• Reflect on and assess the effectiveness of your own and others’ new media writing strategies.

These outcomes have been adapted for Emory writing courses in part from a set developed by the Council of Writing Program Administrators.