The perils of creating a class Web site: it was the best of times, it was the …

✍ Scribed by Greg Wickliff; Kathleen Blake Yancey

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 602 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 8755-4615
• DOI: 10.1016/s8755-4615(01)00048-2

✦ Synopsis

This article explains the visual and computing demands of Web-site authoring in a junior level, undergraduate honors course at a large public university. We argue that the students in this coursehighly literate and skilled in the production of conventional printed academic writing-performed much like basic writers when challenged with acquiring a broad set of new visual and computer literacy skills. We argue for the value of the illustrated essay as a halfway point for connecting our expectations of Web site authoring to students' previous experiences with the production of printed academic discourse.