Over a decade ago, Time bestowed their annual Person of the
Year award on You. Through this award, Time
signaled attention to the rising number of users contributing content to a rising number of digital platforms (e.g., YouTube, Tumblr, Wikipedia, twitter,
Reddit).
As an upper-division writing class, we
will learn how our writing migrates onto these many digital
platforms. I invite you to engage specifically with collaborative digital
document platforms, twitter, and a blogging platform to tailor your writing to
the unique rhetorical situations embedded in each of these platforms.
The purpose of this class is to develop your writing skills through engaging with various digital technologies. The purpose of this class is to not change your views on digital technology but to think critically about how digital technology changes what writing is and how it is accomplished.
