Since our last class on Feb. 4, you should have been conducting your Project 1 research for the Details module of the assignment. During class today on Feb. 11, create a memo that includes your sources’ bibliographic information and quoted material with parenthetical citations. After you have saved this memo containing your research on your own media, copy and paste a copy of it into a comment to this blog post. Since you have done the research, this module should not require very much time. You will refer to this document again in the subsequent modules of our first project.

Before our class on Thursday, Feb. 11, copy-and-paste your planning memo into a comment made to this blog post. Remember to save a copy of your memo in your own files, too. Contact me by email or stop by my office N520  if you need to discuss ideas.

Traditional Media

• Radio
• Books
• Television
• Magazines
• Postcards
• Physical/print newspapers

New Media

• Websites for newspapers and magazines
• Skype
• YouTube
• Social networking/social media/Facebook
• Different apps for news
• Dropbox/cloud-based storage/shared storage
• Photoshop/digital manipulation of images
• Wikipedia
• Virtual forums/reddit/quora digest
• Augmented Reality
• Email
• Online courses/MOOC
• Online gaming
• Gamification websites/services/apps

Differences

• interactivity
• dematerialized/no longer physical/less personal (face-to-face) interaction
• speed (traditional/slow and new/fast)
• more easily accessible (across different devices)
• more convenient to share (content)

Welcome to ENG2720! Download a copy of the syllabus from the page linked above with the same name. Stay tuned here for daily writing assignments based on our readings, in-class discussions, and projects.