What are we doing?

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.

In an attempt to think through these important and challenging concepts, I invite you to compose two 1800-2400 word essays, one mini-paper of 750 words, and brief blog posts.