Technology, Culture, and the Internet

ENGL 249S-01: Advanced Expository Writing
Spring 2003

Here is this semester's schedule.
Dates, topics, and assignments are subject to change, so check this page regularly.

Click on a month to take you directly to that part of the schedule.

January	February	March	April	May

Date	In Class Today	What's Due Note: You are also responsible for browsing the Links pertinent to each day's topic.
Thursday January 23, 2003	Introduction Course Description and Assignments	Homework: Read the class web site THOROUGHLY. E-mail me your technological biography by Sunday, Jan 26th. Develop your "history of technology" time-line. For Tuesday: Peruse the E-mail and Search Engine links on the Links page. For Thursday January 30th read Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think" (take notes!)
Tuesday January 28, 2003	Tech questions: E-mail, search engines; technology time-lines.	For Thursday read George Landow's "Introduction" to Hypertext 2.0 (on reserve in the library Reserve Room). Call number: PN 81 L28 1997(take notes!) and the Ted Nelson links (under Hypertext Theory) on the Links page.
Thursday January 30, 2003 Top	In the beginning.... Hypertext theory and practice: Bush, Landow, Nelson	For Tuesday, Read Lemay 51-65 (Day 3: Intro to HTML).
Tuesday February 4, 2003 Last Day of Add/Drop	Intro to XHTML XHTML Asst.: FAQ Web Directory FAQ	For Thursday read Lemay 69-94 (Day 4: Basic Tags)
Thursday February 6, 2003	HTML Assignment #1: Basic Tags	For Thursday read Lemay 1-27 (Intro and Day 1: World Wide Web); Peruse Hobbes' Internet Timeline, and browse George R. Gromov's History of the Internet and WWW. (Print these out if you want.)
Tuesday February 11, 2003	Video: History of the Internet	For Thursday read Lemay 95-128 (Day 5: Links).
Thursday February 13, 2003	HTML Assignment. #2: Links	For Tuesday read Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, and the article from POV (handout); browse Audience links on Links page. Web Directory topics due in one week.
Tuesday February 18, 2003	Issues of Audience E-mail vs. letters Internet vs. books; Looking for verbal (and visual) cues and clues.	For Thursday, read Lemay 129-172 (Day 6: Text Formatting) Web Directory topics due Thursday.
Thursday February 20, 2003	HTML Assignment #3: Text Formatting	Web Directory topics due. For Tuesday, browse Web Pages that Suck, Hyperterrorist Guide to WWW Design, Hyperterrorist Checklist of WWWeb Design Errors, "A Message to Web Designers: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It,"
Tuesday February 25, 2003	What Makes a Good Web Site? Audience, Theme, Content and Navigation	For Thursday read Lemay 173 - 210 (Day 7: Images, Color and Backgrounds).
Thursday February 27, 2003 Top	HTML Assignment #4: Using Images, Color and Backgrounds	For Thursday skim Lemay 29-50 (Day 2: Planning Your Web Site); read the Writing for the Web links on the Linkspage. You need only browse the Yale Style Guide. but the following (short) pages should examined in more depth: Purpose of a Site; Basic Interface Design; Access Issues; Navigataion; Site Design; Graphic Design 100; Editorial Style; Graphics; and Multimedia.
Tuesday March 4, 2003	Writing for the Internet Section 508 Compliance Cross-browser compatibility	For Thursday read read Lemay 253 - 302 (Day 10: Tables)
Thursday March 6, 2003	HTML assignment #5: Tables	For Tuesday read Lemay 341 - 387 (Day 12: More About XHTML) and 585 - 607 (Day 18: Designing for the Real World) Web Directory/HTML Workshop next Tuesday! Bring drafts; we'll solve problems, add finesse, and troubleshoot. Web Directory due in one week.
Tuesday March 11, 2003	Writing/HTML Workshop for Web Directory	For Thursday, read Lemay 611-630 (Day 19: Putting Your Site Online) Web Directory due Thursday.
Thursday March 13, 2003	HTML Assignment #6 Putting Your Site Online	Web Directory due. For Tuesday, March 25, read Critics of Technology Links on the Links page including "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" by Bill Joy, Lessons from the Luddites by Kirkpatrick Sale, Roderick Sayer's Luddite Annotated Bibliography, and The Unabomber's Manifesto--take notes! Read chapter 1 of Postman's Technopoly (to p. 20)
Tuesday March 18, 2003 Spring Break	NO CLASS!
Thursday March 20, 2003 Spring Break	NO CLASS!
Tuesday March 25, 2003	Critics of Technology Luddites, Luddites, Luddites Technopoly	Response Paper #1 due Thursday. For Thursday read Technopoly (pp. 21-70)
Thursday March 27, 2003 Top	Video: Caught in the Net	Response Paper #1 due. For Tuesday read Security Issues info on Links page; read Technopoly (pp. 71-122)
Tuesday April 1, 2003	Security Issues Technopoly	Response Paper #2 due Thursday. For Thursday read Legal, Ethical and Social links on Links page; read Technopoly (pp. 123-143)
Thursday April 3, 2003	Legal, Ethical and Social Issues Technopoly	Response Paper #2 due. For Thursday April 10 read Food and Health links; read Technopoly (pp. 143-end)
Tuesday April 8, 2003	Video: Diet For a New America	Response Paper #3 due Thursday. For Thursday read Food and Health links
Thursday April 10, 2003	Technology, Food and Health Technopoly	Response Paper #3 due. For Tuesday read Cloning and Bioengineering links on the Links page
Tuesday April 15, 2003	Cloning and Bioengineering Technopoly	Response Paper #4 due Thursday. Final Paper topics due Thursday. For Thursday read Environment links 1 on the Links page.
Thursday April 17, 2003	Technology and the Environment Technopoly	Response Paper #4 due. Final Paper topics due. For Tuesday read Environment links 2 on the Links page.
Tuesday April 22, 2003	Technology and the Environment	Final Paper drafts due Thursday. For Thursday read The Bill of Rights; also read Copyright and Plagiarism links on the Links page. . Final Paper due in two weeks.
Thursday April 24, 2003	Copyright, Plagiarism and Free Speech Issues	Final Paper drafts due. For Tuesday read Digital Divide, Technology and Education links on the Links page.
Tuesday April 29, 2003 Top	The Digital Divide, Technology and Education	Writing Workshop for Final Paper Thursday: bring drafts! Final Paper due in one week.
Thursday May 1, 2003	Writing Workshop for Final Paper.	Bring in your drafts to get comments and help. Final Paper due Tuesday.
Tuesday May 6, 2003 Last Day of Classes	Good-byes, farewells.... Course evaluations	Final Paper due. No Extensions!