ENG 360.01 & GSR 300.06: Writing for Digital Media

1. Read and analyze texts from multiple digital writing environments, as well as the environments themselves

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1. Digital story analysis

2. Reflections and reactions to reading

3. In-class discussions

1. Assignment criteria

2. Instructor assessment of discussion contributions

2. Gain competency in both traditional journalistic style and several alternatives to it (alternative story formats, storytelling techniques used in social media)

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1. Taking Beyond the Inverted Pyramid course

2. Digital stories (photo essay, how-to video, etc.)

1. Proof of completion, in-class presentation

2. Assignment criteria

3. Apply alternative story formats -- as well as the rhetorical appeals of logos, pathos, ethos, and kairos -- to produce digital texts appropriate for the professional media environment.

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1. Digital stories (photo essay, how-to video, etc.)

2. Midterm: Revised news story

3. Final Project

1. Assignment criteria

4. Develop and articulate innovative ideas that can bring greater equity into the digital media environment

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1. Reflections and reactions to readings

2. Final Project

3. In-class discussions

1. Assignment criteria

2. Instructor assessment of discussion contributions