Course Description
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ENGL 419: Multimedia Writing
Time: MWF 9:30-10:20
Location: HEAV 227
Instructor: J. Tirrell
Contact: jtirrell@purdue.edu
Office: HEAV 207 & HEAV 205A
Office hours: MWF 10:30-11:30
Course Overview
This course helps students practice and understand the principles of multimedia design and implementation, with emphasis on writing in multimedia contexts. Students closely examine various multimedia products, doing oral and/or written analyses of a number of such pieces. Course readings focus on how different media communicate meaning, shape our reactions, and interact with one another. Students propose, plan, and develop a a number of individual and/or group multimedia projects, including those for the Web, using a variety of technologies that support and enhance the presentation of content in multimedia forms.Course Goals
Responsibility- Engage the culture and problems associated with multimedia writing
- Develop project standards through negotiation with clients
- Use, adapt, and evaluate various writing techniques and technologies for specific rhetorical purposes
- Learn to evaluate and apply effective principles of document design in print and digital media
- Develop multiple and flexible online work strategies to make a professional portfolio
- Plan and articulate design decisions throughout the production process
- Develop strategies for planning, researching, and producing documents that effectively respond to specific professional situations, problems, or research issues
Learn and apply strategies for successful team work, such as:
- working online with colleagues
- determining roles and responsibilities
- managing team conflicts constructively
- responding constructively to peers' work
- using peer feedback
- achieving team goals
Course Readings
Readings will be provided online. Students are responsible for printing texts, reading them, and bringing them to class. The money that students save not purchasing a textbook will be expended on these and other course materials.Required Technology
- access to and ability to interact with the course website
- access to word processing, visual design, and web design software
- an email address checked regularly for course-related business
- Purdue student web space (web.ics.purdue.edu/~yourlogin)
Grading
This courses uses the plus/minus grading system. Pluses/minuses will appear on coursework feedback and final grade reports. The scoring breakdown is as follows:- 98-100 = A+
- 92-97 = A
- 90-91 = A-
- 88-89 = B+
- 82-87 = B
- 80-81 = B-
- 78-79 = C+
- 72-77 = C
- 70-71 = C-
- 68-69 = D+
- 62-67 = D
- 60-61 = D-
- 0-59 = F
project 1 = 20%
project 2 = 20%
project 3 = 20%
midterm = 20%
homework = 20%