Beardsley

What's your favorite food? Where does it originate? What is the most popular food on campus? In Illinois? These are just a few of the questions we'll explore as we learn basic HTML, build websites, and create food-themed digital texts. This course considers what it means to write in a digital environment. You will use and analyze collaborative online platforms and consider topics including social media, blogging, privacy, writing with artificial intelligence (AI), and honing the skills you need to analyze and create content for a specific audience.

Learning Outcomes

• Explain theories for writing digital content
• Learn basic HTML and CSS
• Create accessible digital texts (social media posts and website)
• Analyze the audience, purpose, genre conventions, and situational constraints for digital writing
• Collaborate with others to improve your writing
• Identify and analyze potential ethical issues, such as the confidentiality of information or misinformation

Presentation

I shared my experience teaching ENG 388 at the 2024 Computers & Writing Conference. Access a PDF of the slides.