Weekly
Our semester will follow the reading of these chapters in this order unless announced.
Week Schedule:
- Course Introduction
- What is a CMS and why a professional writer should care
- Learning Drupal
- Building sites
- Projects
- Introducing your Drupal subdoman.
- Basic HTML
- Chapter One, Content!; Chapter Two, People! (NO CLASS this week but read anyway)
- Reading The Rapidian--site analysis: content/people. (use "Reading Response" tag)
- Post to this site a rhetorical analysis of The Rapidian. (use "Website Analysis" tag)
- Discussion and invention activities for our work on The Rapidian stories.
- Reading the The Rapidian
- Writing for The Rapidian
- Generating topics: leave class with list of story possibilities
- More exploration of our drupal sites
- Learn some HTML
- Visit from Denise Cheng, Editor, The Rapidian.
- Free lance writing in the online world.
- Working on our Drupal websites.
- Post progress report on Rapidian story. Post as a blog using the Rapidian tag.
- [October 4] Chapter Three, Starting Well: Home Pages
- Website Analysis Initial Project Post with Project Proposal due at the end of the class period.
- Draft of Rapidian story due this week.
- Chapter Four, Getting There: Pathway Pages
- First Tech Writing assignment discussion.
- Chapter Five, Writing Information
- Chapter Six, Focusing on the Messages
- Interlude, The New Life of Press Releases; Chapter Eight, Tuning Up Your Sentences; Chapter Six, Focusing on the Messages
- Second Tech Writing assignment due at the beginning of the class period.
- Chapter Nine, Using Lists and Tables; Chapter Ten, Breaking Up Your Text with Headings; Chapter Twelve, Writing Meaningful Links; Chapter Thirteen, Getting from Draft to Final Web Pages; Creating an Organic Style Guide
- Group Presentations: Website Analysis; Your Drupal site design workshop. (Nov 22)
- Group Presentations: Website Analysis; Your Drupal site design workshop. (Nov 29)
- Last class (Dec 6) we will work on our Drupal sites and review a bit for the final
- FINAL (Dec 13)
