Introduction to Writing Studies

English 275, Spring 2003
Dr. Kevin Brooks

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Course Texts & Description

Course Policies and Suggestions

Accounting for myself


Schedule

Revised schedule, Jan. 27 - March 14
March 24 - May 12 (updated April 4))

 


Assignments

First half o' semester

  1. Class participation
  2. Doing things with Phaedrus
  3. Mosaic Tiles
  4. Research Paper
  5. Mid-term exam
Community literacy center project
  1. Feasibility report
  2. Literacy essay
  3. Web or print document team (#3 has been dropped)

Final Exam and grade definitions


Community Literacy Project Links

Literacy Links

Professional Writing and Project Management

Notes on Brandt


Online Resources

Phaedrus screen

McLuhan Screen

Research screen

Class weblog
Blogger.com (weblog host)

 

The McLuhan Screen

(Marshall McLuhan, 1911-80)

The Gutenberg Galaxy is available online through Questia.com, but you have to pay a fee to access it. I've prepared a Guide to the Gutenberg Galaxy that might help you work your way through the book.

Some excerpts from Understanding Media (1964), the book published after GG, can be found on the TAO (Theory into Action) website.

The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology is the official home of McLuhan studies. The Program is physically located on the campus of the University of Toronto, where McLuhan spent most of his career, and it continues to offer course work in the McLuhan tradition. Check out the Program's weblog--all the techno-savvy academics are blogging!

Wired Magazine, one of the most influential magazines about techno-culture, has featured McLuhan a few times. In January of 1996, he was on the cover of the magazine and he was the feature story. More recently, one of their reporters reviewed a new documentary, McLuhan's Wake. Both pieces play up the clownish side of McLuhan's career, but I am still convinced that he was deadly serious about joking.

I have made a handful of entries about McLuhan on my weblog:

This old page on "Electronic Communication" uses Ong's eras (orality, literacy, secondary orality) instead of McLuhan's terminology, but Ong and McLuhan more or less agree. This page focuses on the electric era.

 


Last Modified: April 22, 2003
© Kevin Brooks, 2003