Introduction to Web Authoring

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Ellen Cushman cushmane_at_msu.edu
Introduction toWeb Authoring
Class mtg. 5
www.msu.edu/cushmane/wra210.htm our
syllabus www.msu.edu/cushmane/wa.htm old class
page www.msu.edu/cushmane/wa2.htm new class page
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Agenda

• Review where we are
• Talk about where were headed
• Take first step toward getting there--a homework
  assignment!

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Samples Youve Developed

• In the spotlight today
• Pages of first time web authors
• Pages of authors with more experience
• Pages of authors who developed their own style
  sheets or expanded the css inline/embedded using
  their home-resources.
• You all have learned a considerable amount to
  accomplish this KUDOS!!!

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Review

• CSS inline and embedded code solved some of our
  problems, but not all and not consistently. Style
  sheets please!
• Problem solving strategies when working with code
  included
• (list these here)
• Weve worked with structure and behavior for a
  website, but now we need to focus on content and
  the conventions that govern it.

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Intro to Assignment 2

• Genre Analysis Paper Assignment

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Genre Defined

• What we know about genres
• What we want to know about genres
• What the discipline says about genres
• A habitual response to a recurring social
  situation.
• Traces of the response are recognizable as
  regularities of textual form.
• When these are seen as tools or rules, theyve
  become conventions of the form.

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Genre Defined, cont.

• What this model shows us about how a genre of
  product reviews work.
• Product Reviews
• Tucson Milk

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To Discuss What is a Product Review?

• Who writes?
• Who reads?
• What are the parts?
• What makes one useful/good?

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Exercise

• Create a review of our class text Zeldmans
  book.
• Take a look at the online reviews and what
  audiences find helpful or not.
• Write a review of Zeldmans book.
• Add a link to your review to your WRA 210 project
  page.

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Homework

• Finish your review
• Find a site you want to analyze
• Download the questions to get your analysis
  started from the bottom of the assignment
  description site.
• Begin answering the questions
• Next class, we begin Photoshop as we look at the
  Onion and other parody sites.