ENG 375 - Composing New Media

This course studies how and why we compose in new media. Students will explore the move from print to online publishing; the rhetorical effects, complexities, and problems of this online setting; and the rhetorical choices they must make in their own online texts. Students will study and compose in different new media platforms, which may include blogs and other hypertexts. They will also investigate how the rhetoric of these venues creates new situations and opportunities for academic, journalistic, and political writing in the evolving public sphere. Some sections of this course may be offered as hybrid courses or online only. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits