Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 3:48 PM -0500
From: Kevin Brooks
Re: readings for next week

Hi again Two online readings for next week.

Team Teaching in the Virtual Writing Classroom,
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/5.1/features/ruff/index.htm
I chose this one because it will give you an idea of what some universities do in their first-year courses, and it will give you an example of e-mail logs, chat logs, etc. This essay does not try to do much to "please the eye"--what do you think of its academic minimalism?

Rhetorics of the Web: Implications for Teachers of Literacy (http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.1/features/brent/wayin.htm)
This web essay, or web monograph (it is, the author admits, quite big) broaches the issue of hypertext genres (something I am interested in) and addresses more specifically the issue of hypertext arguments. It is a visually underdeveloped essay, but a smart and well written piece. Read what you can; tell us what you think.

I have an idea for our web essay and the issues of aesthetics. Maybe each of us can design a "meal" (a section of the essay) based on an aesthetic that makes sense to us (just as we each prepare a meal for the rest of the class that, presumably, reflects our "tastes" in one way or another). We would each choose the "theme" of the meal, as well as the aesthetics. This is where the idea of you finding and presenting articles comes back in to play.

I will book Morrill 111 for next Monday, and we can spend some time searching databases. If you can do some searching before time, that would probably be useful.

If you want to check out our essay in progress, the web site is http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/kbrooks/MVE

Let me know what I have left unsaid, un- or ill-explained.

Kevin

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