Course Description: This course offers advanced students hands-on experience with writing and producing shorter-form texts for electronic media. Comparative forms perspectives of writing for such media will be studied, and the creation of projects will include generating ideas, writing proposals, research and development of topics, planning, and employing the stylistic conventions of professional writers in the field. Students learn the distinctive competencies of writing for electronic media, and of working from concepts to actual production.

Required Texts:

• Tatters, W., & Colburn, R. (1997). Teach yourself Netscape 4 Web publishing in a week (2nd ed.). Indianapolis, IN: Sams.net Publishing.
• Web tips from the pros: Using the Web as a journalism tool. Available: http://www.poynter.org/web/

• To introduce students to the basic technical aspects of writing for electronic media and publishing online.
• To encourage the development of the critical reading and thinking skills necessary to analyze and evaluate materials written for electronic media objectively.
•  To practice and develop skills and techniques relevant to writing for electronic media.
• To heighten the students' awareness of the complexities of writing for the various types of audiences addressed by electronic media.
• To assist students in the planning, organization, and development of a series of writing projects related to their majors and areas of interest using electronic media.