Notes on the rhetoric of web design
(Also posted on the PWR Teaching Writing with Technology blog) These are the notes for a presentation I shared with colleagues on August 10, 2011, as part of the PWR Digital Composition Workshop. The notes are part of a larger project I’m working on that will help colleagues and students explore the rhetoric of web design. Notes on the Rhetoric …
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PLEASE NOTE: This handout is subject to perpetual revision! VERY BRIEF OVERVIEW At its heart, rhetoric is the study of how knowledge is created and shared through communication practices that include reading, writing, and speaking. Rhetoric gives us the tools we need to study these communication practices so that we better understand how and why we respond to certain messages …
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I’m an instructor as well as the Digital Composition Coordinator for the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU Boulder.
Most of my web design energies go towards my class web sites and sites for my PWR colleagues, so please pardon any mess you come across here!
