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Contents

• 1 Syllabus
• 2 Schedule
• 3  Assignments
  • 3.1 Critical Responses
  • iii.2 Wiki Glossary
  • three.3 Wiki Group Presentation
  • 3.four Close Reading Paper
  • three.five Research Paper
  • three.half dozen Web Project

Syllabus

English x LC â€" Introduction to Literature
Literature and the Culture of Information:
Textual Ecologies
Wintertime 2006

Catalog No. 50971
Meets: Tue & Thu 11 a.g. â€" 12:40 p.thou.

Location: SH 1415

Teacher: Kim Knight (kimberly_knight@umail.ucsb.edu)
Office Hours: Tue & Thu i p.m. – 2 p.m. in Transcriptions (SH 2509)

Class website: http://kimknight.com
Online Forum
Course Wiki

Delight notation: The Transcriptions Studio RA this quarter is available for drop-in assistance during the following times:
Mon – 12 – 4
Tues – two – 4
Wednesday – iv – 6
Thurs – 12 – 4

Form Description

In this version of English 10, nosotros will use the basic principles of literary analysis to explore the intersections and disjunctions betwixt literature and technology.

We will appoint with a diverseness of content, from gothic fiction to gimmicky prose and poetry, to visual texts such as graphic novels, films, or video games. Our movement through the class will progress genre-by-genre and a chief aspect of our piece of work will exist to tease out the threads that unite the wide range of texts under consideration.

We will likewise be reading a selection of critical works and learning some rudimentary web pattern skills in order to complete a web-based project. In addition, the course will include education in research and writing in print and digital environments.

Recommended for students interested in doing a future Literature and Culture of Information specialization. English x is required for all English majors and recommended for English minors.

Satisfies second half of GE requirement in Expanse A.

Required Texts

All of these books are available at the UCSB bookstore.

• Gaiman, Neil. Marvel 1602. New York: Marvel Enterprises, 2004.
• Gibson, William. Neuromancer. New York: Ace, 1984.
• Hayles, N. Katherine. Writing Machines. Cambridge: MIT Printing, 2003.
• Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. New York: WW Norton, 1996.

The course readings include a number of online texts: both traditional impress texts that can be found online and those written exclusively for use with a computer.

Principle amongst the digital texts will be three hypertext novels:

• Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl (Plant in the Transcriptions Studio)
• Judy Malloy's l0ve 0ne
• Geoff Ryman's 253

See the course schedule for other texts.

*At the moment, at that place are several texts that are listed but do not accept links. I am in the process of scanning and uploading these and will update the syllabus every bit they are bachelor. You are not required to purchase any texts beyond what is listed above.

Form Policies

Attendance

Much of the most valuable information will come up out of our class discussions and your participation is necessary for our success. It is important that you lot come to every class prepared and on fourth dimension. To be “prepared” means that you have thoughtfully engaged with the reading, completed the critical response assignment, are prepared to discuss it and that you are equipped with the supplies necessary to participate in class (books, paper, writing instruments, etc.)

Because your presence in class is important, 3 or more absences will touch your terminal course. In virtually circumstances, six absences will issue in failure. 3 instances of tardiness volition equal one absence.

Cell phones and pagers are to be turned off and kept out of my sight. If your phone or pager rings during form, or if I see you checking your messages / pages during grade, you lot volition be marked absent-minded. No exceptions.

Email Policy

Since nosotros are, after all, focusing on the culture of information, I have done my all-time to make the grade as “paperless” as possible. As such, papers will exist turned in via e-mail. In improver, you are encouraged to contact me with questions, newspaper ideas, full general comments, etc. via electronic mail.

Delight be enlightened that I respond to most electronic mail messages inside 24 hours Monday â€" Friday. If you send me an e-mail and I do not respond during this timeframe, chances are that I did not receive information technology. It is your responsibleness to re-send the electronic mail or to contact me another fashion.

Online Etiquette

Every bit nosotros volition undoubtedly observe in class, the finer points of online communication can be tricky. Emotions are difficult to limited and read. Our many online assignments will require vigilance to ensure that we are always preserving an atmosphere of mutual respect. Disagreements may ascend and consensus may not be possible. Nosotros can, all the same, respect each person’s right to an opinion. Name calling or menacing beliefs volition non be tolerated.

Academic Honesty

From the UCSB Full general Catalog: “Materials submitted to fulfill academic requirements must represent a student’s own efforts. Any act of academic dishonesty, such as plagiarism or other forms of cheating, is unacceptable and volition be met with disciplinary activeness.”

Plagiarism will effect in a declining grade on the plagiarized assignment and possible disciplinary action by the academy. We will review the proper mode to use outside sources in order to avert plagiarism; however, I encourage you to meet with me if you are at all uncertain about whether your writing could be misconstrued as plagiarism

Assignments

Participation – 10%

Critical Responses – x%

Wiki Glossary – 10%

Wiki Group Presentation – x%

Web Project – 20%

Close Reading Paper – 20%

Inquiry Paper – 20%

Schedule

January 10 – Introduction

January 12 – Writing Machines

• Critical Response Due. Post in class forum.
• Terms: New media, technotext, fabric metaphor, hypertext, media-specific assay.
• Readings Due:
  • Due north. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines, Preface, Ch. 1, Ch. two and Lexicon Linkmap, (p 4 â€" 33, 72).
  • Hayles, Writing Machines Online Dictionary Linkmap Peruse linkmap with detail attention to materiality and grade (click on web supplement and and then on the picture of the open book to access the linkmap).
  • Erik Loyer, “Webtake” on Writing Machines.Read webtake with particular attending to materiality and form
  • Reading Center Dog. Scan site to go a sense of the Reading Eye Dog’s purpose and its status equally technotext

 January 17 – Visual Genealogies: Shaped Poetics and the ImageText

• Critical Response Due in class forum.
• Group Wiki Presentation – Marvel 1602: Taylor and Leah
• Readings Due:
  • George Herbert, “The Altar” and “Easter Wings”
  • William Blake, “Introduction” (Songs of Feel) and The Tyger
    * if the links are not working, go to http://blakearchive.org, select "The states Home" at the bottom of the page, illuminated works, and and so Songs of Innocence and Experience. Yous will then be able to find "Introduction" and "The Tyger."
  • Stephen Mallarmé, "I
    Toss of the Dice Will Never Cancel Adventure"
  • Neil Gaiman, Marvel 1602, Peter Sanderson’southward Introduction and Parts one & 2.
  • W.J.T. Mitchell, extract from Picture Theory (p 89-92, 95 – 97 Par 1, 99 Par 2, 106 par two – 107).
  • Scott McCloud, extract from Agreement Comics (Ch half-dozen p 138 â€" 161).

January nineteen – Curiosity 1602

• Critical Response Due in course forum.
• Terms: shaped poetics (Krystal), imagetext (Krystal), frame (Krystal), disjunction (Alex), synthesis (Alex), heterogeneous representation (Alex).
• Readings Due:
  • Neil Gaiman, Marvel 1602, Parts 3 â€" 8, Afterword, browse Script and Sketches
  • Scott McCloud, excerpts from Agreement Comics. Affiliate 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 8.

Jan 24 – Poetic Genealogies: Romantic  / Victorian and Modernist Poetry

•  Disquisitional Response due in course forum.
• Readings Due:
  • William Wordsworth, "The Alone Reaper"
  • Christina Rosetti, “Cousin Kate"
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Duns Scotus's Oxford"
  • Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro"
  • H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Mid-twenty-four hour period
  • Wallace Stevens, “ Of Modern Verse and Disillusionment of 10 O'Clock
  • William Carlos Williams, "This is Just to Say"
  • east.e. cummings, "r-p-o-p-h-e-south-s-a-one thousand-r"
  • Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Absurd"
  • Walter Benjamin, “The Piece of work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Preface and Sections 1 – 5)Â

January 26 – New Media Poesy

• Disquisitional Response due in class forum.
• Group Wiki Presentation – New Media Poetry (Krystal)
  • Terms: rhythm (Gabrielle), gratis poetry (Gabrielle), tropes (Gabrielle), metaphor (Amber), metonymy (Taryn), simile (Amber), personification (Amber), and synecdoche (Taryn), poetic diction, cacophony (Katy), euphony (Ashley), modernism (Katy), postmodernism (Katy).
• Readings Due:
  • Peter Howard, "A Poppy"; Also read the plain text version.
  • Dan Waber, "Strings"
  • Komninos Zervos, "Invention (CyberPoetry)"
  • Ana Maria Uribe, Select two – three Anipoemas at Vispo.com
  • Bob Grumman, “MNMLST Verse
  • Due north. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines. Ch 3

Mon, Jan 30

A full-length (i.e. minimum four page) draft of Paper 1 to exist posted to the grade forum no afterwards than v:30 PM.

Please read your workshop partner'southward draft before coming to course on Tuesday.

Jan 31 – Frankenstein and Paper One Workshop

• No Critical Response due.
• Paper Workshop – Bring two copies of a total-length typhoon of your paper to class.
• Readings Due:
  • Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Editor’s Preface, Author’s Preface and Vol I of Frankenstein (p seven â€" 59).
  • Read your paper workshop partner'southward paper prior to coming to grade.
  • Secondary Readings:
    • Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, “Mary Shelley’due south Monstrous Eve” in Frankenstein (p 225 â€" 241).
    • Barbara Johnson “My Monster/My Self” in Frankenstein (p 241 â€" 251).

Feb 2 – Frankenstein, Part 2

• Disquisitional Response due in course forum.
• Group Wiki presentation – Frankenstein (Linh and Amber).
  • Terms: realism (Candace), narrative (Candace), epistolary novel (Candace), gothic, linearity (Taylor), aporia (Kai), epiphany (Linh).
• Readings Due:
  • Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Vol ii (p 59 – 102)

Friday, Feb 3

• Paper One is due on the class forum no later than 5:30 p.k. No Exceptions.
• Insert your images in the midst of your text if they are small enough, or at the end of the newspaper. Just be sure to include a reference such as (see epitome 1) and then label them i, 2, 3, etc.

February 7 – Frankenstein, Vol III and Patchwork Girl

Critical Response due grade forum.

Readings Due:

• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Volume III (p 103 â€" 157).
• Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, "Mary Shelley's Monstrous Eve," Frankenstein (p 225 – 240).
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Frankenstein and a Critique of Imperialism," Frankenstein (p 262 – 270)
• Secondary Readings
  • Donna Haraway, “Cyborg Manifesto”
  • Familiarize yourself with the layout and workings of Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl (bachelor in the Transcriptions Studio).

Feb ix – Patchwork Girl

•  Critical Response due in class forum.
• Group Wiki Presentation – Patchwork Girl (Katy and Nicole)
  • Terms: Interactive fiction (Jessica), closure (Jessica), reading paths (Jessica), heterarchy (Taryn), linking mechanism (Linh).
• Readings Due:
  • Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Daughter. Available in the Transcriptions Studio.
  • Espen Aarseth, excerpt from Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature (Ch four p 76 â€" 97).
  • Secondary Readings:
    • Alan Sondheim and Stelarc "On Stelarc".
    • N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines, Ch seven (p 100 â€" 108).

 Feb xiv – l0ve 0ne

• Critical Response due in class forum.
• Group Wiki Presentation – l0ve 0ne (Ashley and Daniel).
• Readings Due:
  • Judy Malloy, l0ve 0ne.
  • Marshall McLuhan, “Media Hot and Cold.”
  • Secondary Readings:
    • Marshall McLuhan, "The Medium is the Message".

Feb 16 – l0ve 0ne, Part II

• Disquisitional Response due in class forum.
• Terms: interface (Jenna), setting (Jenna), spatial writing (Jenna), hot and absurd media (Ashley), ideology (Nicole).
• Readings Due:
  • Judy Malloy, l0ve 0ne.
  • Bill Nichols, “The Work of Culture in the Historic period of Cybernetic Systems.”
  • Time permitting, review Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Preface and Sections 1 – 5)Â

Feb 21 – Neuromancer, Part I

• Critical Response due in class forum.
• Readings Due:
  • William Gibson, Neuromancer, parts ane- 2 (pages one – 98)
  • Northward. Katherine Hayles, “The Seduction of Net.”

February 23 – Neuromancer, Part II

• Wiki Presentation – Neuromancer, Alex and Jessica
• Critical Response due in class forum.
• Terms: narrator (Daniel), betoken-of-view (Daniel), cyberpunk (Daniel), cyberspace (Kai), visual narrative (Kai), identity (Nicole).
• Readings Due:
  • William Gibson, Neuromancer, Parts three, 4 and Coda.
  • Secondary Reading:
    • Julian Dibbell, “A Rape In Cyberspace; or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Bandage of Dozens Turned a Database into a Order.”
    • Michael Heim, “The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace.”

Mon, February 27 – Draft of Paper Ii is due in the class forum no later than v:thirty p.m.

Feb 28 – Robot Stories

• No Critical Response due.
• Screening of Robot Stories.
• Readings Due:
  • Lisa Nakamura, “Race In/For Internet.”

Midweek, Mar 1 – Respond to your paper workshop partner'south online draft in the form forum no later than v:30 p.one thousand.

Mar 2 – Robot Stories

• Group Wiki Presentation – Robot Stories (Jenna and Candace).
• Terms: lighting (Taylor), dialogue, editing, transition, shot, camera motility (Taylor), camera bending (Nicole), focus (Taylor).

Fri, Mar 3 – Paper Two no afterward than 5:30 p.m. No Exceptions. Post papers on the class forum.

Mar 7 – Curt Stories

• Disquisitional Response due in course forum.
• Group Wiki Presentation – Short Stories (Taryn and Gabrielle).
• Readings Due:
  • Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of the Forking Paths.”
  • James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon), “The Daughter Who Was Plugged In.”
  • Larissa Lai, “Rachel.”
• Secondary Readings:
  • Charles Saunders, “Why Blacks Should Read (and Write) Science Fiction.”
• *****Dreamweaver Workshop******  SH 2509, 2pm – 4pm

Mar 9 – The Narrative of Play

• Critical Response due in class forum.
• Grouping Wiki Presentation – Gaming (Kai).
• Terms: subculture (Linh), gaming (Ashley).
• Readings Due:
  • Felis Rex, LambdaMoo: An Introduction
  • LambdaMoo Your computer will launch a "telnet" window. In the window that says LambdaMoo at the tiptop, type "connect Guest" to get started. I highly recommend typing "@tutorial" right abroad to help y'all find your way around. Spend some time exploring and interacting with people.
  • Linden Labs, Second Life (register for a costless
    bones business relationship and spend a couple of hours playing).
  • James Paul Gee, “Why Game Studies Now?
  • Secondary Readings:
    • David J. Leonard, “Not a Hater, Simply Keepin Information technology Real: The Importance of Race- and Gender-Based Game Studies”
    • Toby Miller, "Gaming for Beginners"
• *****Dreamweaver Workshop****** SH 2509, 1pm – 3pm

Mar 14 – Spider web Presentations

• Draft of Web Projection due.
• Final draft of Wiki glossary and group entries due.
• The post-obit students volition present their web projects-in-procedure and receive feedback:

Wed, Mar 22 – Final Exam Menstruation 12 p.thousand. to 3 p.m.

• The following students will present their web projects and receive feedback:
• Extra Credit Concluding Examination: An extra credit final examination volition follow the spider web presentations and will consist of multiple choice and short answer questions on terminology and texts from the unabridged quarter.

Sun, Mar 29 – Spider web Projects Due

• Spider web projects are due, i.east. must exist online, by five:30 p.g. You must email me the URL (web accost) to let me know the project is complete.

 Assignments

Disquisitional Responses

Due each class period, unless otherwise noted.

1 – 2 paragraphs, 125 words minimum, plus one discussion question. Critically reply to one or more of the readings due.

Responses should be posted in the form forum prior to the beginning of the course period. Although the assignment is online, treat it as a formal assignment – complete sentences and well-organized paragraphs, no IM speak, and no emoticons, please.

If you need ideas for a response, consider the post-obit:
Were there any sections of the text that you lot constitute particularly interesting or exciting? why?
Were there any places where you institute yourself disagreeing with the author? why?
What new concepts did you lot acquire through the text and how practise they relate to what yous already knew or thought you lot knew?
Is the writer leaving anything out? What didn't he or she talk about that you wish they had?

The purpose of the Critical Response assignment is twofold: information technology prepares y'all for class word and starts you thinking most topics that may exist appropriate for newspaper one or paper 2.

Wiki Glossary

Ongoing Due Dates.

Each pupil will contribute iii entries to a form Wiki. Terms volition be assigned in class. Meet the Schedule section for terms and due dates.

Based upon our reading and your use of dictionaries and other sources, y'all will craft a definition for each term. Some words, such as "focus" take many meanings, but you lot will want to base your entry off of the pregnant that is advisable to our class. Each entry should be a minimum of 50 words to fully convey the meaning of the term.

Please note: Entries should exist written in your own words.

If your definition includes the use of other terms in the wiki, you should link them using an "internal link."

Run into the entry on materiality for an instance.

Instructions for posting in class wiki

Please note: The offset, full-length draft of each term is due on the date it is listed in the schedule. I will give you feedback on your entry post-obit that date, and the last draft is due Tue, March 14th. This is and so you lot have a chance to refine the definition as y'all discover that information technology applies to the different genres and texts nosotros will encounter throughout the quarter.

The class wiki will become a collaborative resource for use in writing your papers and preparing for the extra credit final exam.

Wiki Group Presentation

Ongoing Due Dates.

Groups will compose a wiki entry for a text or genre to be presented to the course.

The entry should include information about the author and context of the volume, a brief plot summary (if applicable), key issues, links to relevant literary terms, and links to at to the lowest degree two exterior sources. Entries should be a minimum of 200 words (links will not be included in word count).

See the Writing Machines entry for an case.

Instructions for posting in class wiki

Please note: A full-length draft of your wiki entry is due on the date of your presentation, including summary, context, key bug, and external links. I will give y'all feedback on your entry after your presentation, just final drafts are not due until Tue, Mar 14th. This is so you have a risk to link to all relevant terms, etc.

The course wiki will become a collaborative resource for utilise in writing your papers and preparing for the extra credit final test.

Close Reading Paper

Newspaper One: Close Reading

Due via email Friday, February 3rd by 5:30 p.1000.

Purpose:
To formulate a thesis based upon shut textual analysis.
To provide development and back up for your ideas.
To demonstrate your ability to construction a articulate and effective essay.

Texts:
Writing Machines*, Marvel 1602, or one or more than poems.
No outside sources required.

Background:
Thus far in class, our readings and discussions have centered on the materiality of the text and the human relationship between visual images and text. Your writing task is to approach either Writing Machines, Marvel 1602, or one or more poems and codify an argument based upon these readings and discussions. In other words, you lot will first want to decide what yous call back the text means and and so formulate a thesis about how either the material class or the image-text relationship helps or hinders that meaning.

Possible topics include, just are not limited to:

How does the material artifact of any ane of the texts enhance or detract from the pregnant?
Argue for or against any of the more “traditional” texts as technotext.
How practice paradigm-text relations impact meaning in whatever one of the texts?
Evaluate the use of color in Marvel 1602 or one of the poems.
Analyze the utilise of lines in “A Toss of the Dice” or Marvel 1602 or any of the poetry.
How does visual scoring in Mallarmé create or clarify ambivalence?
Debate for or confronting any of the new media poems having “aura.”**

You may observe that you want to utilize some of the terms and concepts we’ve discussed in form. If y'all exercise and so, please give the author credit for her ideas. However, please notation that the majority of your evidence should be based upon elements of the text themselves. For example, I’one thousand less interested in what McCloud has to say about colour than in the item colors and pairings used in Marvel 1602 and how you translate them.

The Writing Process:
Writing is a process. In other words, smart and polished papers are rarely produced with the first draft. As such, paper one has at least one typhoon built into the construction of the assignment. I as well recommend yous utilise some sort of invention tool to help you open up up your thought processes. Various invention tools can be institute on the grade website, under “Tools.” And because writing tin can almost always exist improved through collaboration, nosotros will have an in-class paper workshop. Completion of the draft and participation in the newspaper workshop plant office of the total newspaper course. Encounter below for details.

The specs:
• 4 â€" half dozen pages, double spaced
• 12 point Times font
• 1-inch margins all the fashion around
• MLA format (nosotros volition review this in class; also run across the Guide to MLA format on the course website)
• Formal tone written for a general academic audience

Timeline and Due Dates:

The assignments beneath are due at the get-go of class on the date listed. The grade for a late paper will exist reduced one total letter class for each day information technology is late.

Thu, 1/26 (in class) Be prepared to share your topic idea with the class.

Mon, 1/thirty v:30 p.chiliad. Mail service a full-length draft of your paper to the class forum.
Read your workshop partner’s newspaper and make notes prior to coming to form on Tuesday.

Tue, one/31 (in class) Newspaper Workshop; Bring 2 copies of your newspaper to class.

Friday, 2/3 5:30 p.chiliad. Paper due to me via email. Salvage as a word document (.doc) and email to Kimberly_knight@umail.ucsb.edu

Grading Breakdown â€" 20 points possible
• Full-length draft posted on time in the grade forum â€" two.5 points
• Paper Workshop â€" 2.v points
• Final Draft â€" 15 points

The terminal draft will exist evaluated according to the attached grading rubric. The class for a tardily paper volition be reduced past one total letter grade for each day it is tardily.

Of Special Note:
• If y'all write near Marvel 1602, please scan any pages that you analyze and attach them to your paper. A scanner is bachelor in the Transcriptions Studio. For driblet-in hours, run across the course website.
• If you write almost whatever of the new media poems, delight include screen grabs of particular elements y'all use in your analysis. To screen grab on a PC, hold down the “alt” fundamental and hit “print screen.” The paradigm is then on your clipboard and tin can be copied into Discussion, photoshop, etc. For a Mac, use the awarding “Grab” plant under Applications / Utilities or download the free plan “SnapNDrag” (which can besides exercise screen grabs of movies).

*It would be difficult to write well-nigh Writing Machines without also because the web supplement. Should you decide to practise so, you will want to make the reasons for that choice clear in your newspaper. Although it is not required, you may find it beneficial to also read Capacity four â€" eight.
**You will demand to read the rest of the Benjamin commodity if you make up one's mind to pursue this topic.

Grading Rubric

Enquiry Paper

Due Friday, March 3rd by 5:thirty p.thou.
Post in the class forum

Newspaper Two
Mini Inquiry Newspaper

Purpose:
To codify a thesis based upon shut textual analysis.
To provide development and back up for your ideas.
To effectively utilize outside sources as function of your argument.
To demonstrate your ability to structure a articulate and constructive essay.

Texts:
Frankenstein, Patchwork Girl, l0ve 0ne, or Neuromancer.

Special allowance: If yous would like to expect forward to Robot Stories, any of the brusque stories, or the gaming department, you may practise so. This of form, requires that you practice the reading ahead of time. However, if y'all cull not to write about whatever of the texts listed in a higher place, on Thu, Feb 23rd, you must turn in a 1-paragraph topic proposal at the beginning of form.

Outside Sources:
A minimum of three exterior sources; you lot must detect at least 2 of these through the apply of library enquiry. In other words, at least two must be sources that practise non appear on the class schedule.

The specs:
4 â€" half dozen pages, double spaced; 12 point Times font; ane-inch margins all the way around; MLA format; Formal tone written for a full general academic audition.

Timeline and Due Dates:
The assignments below are due at the starting time of class on the date listed. The grade for a late paper will be reduced one total letter class for each solar day it is late.

Engagement Assignment

Thu, 2/23 (in class) Be prepared to share your topic thought with the class; Topic Proposals due for those not writing about Frankenstein, Patchwork Girl, l0ve 0ne, or Neuromancer.

Monday, ii/27 5:thirty p.1000. Mail a total-length draft of your paper to the grade forum.

Wednesday iii/1 five:thirty p.thou. Online Peer Response Due in class forum.

Fri, ii/three 5:30 p.m. Paper due. Mail on the form forum.

Grading Breakdown â€" 20 points possible
• Draft and Online Paper Workshop â€" 3 points
• Terminal Draft â€" 17 points

The final typhoon will exist evaluated according to the same grading rubric used for paper ane. The class for a belatedly paper will be reduced past i total letter grade for each day information technology is late.

Possible topics include, just are not limited to:

Clarify the framing and narrative structure of any text. In what ways do these formal characteristics affect the materiality, characterization, etc.

Using the concepts outlined in Chapters 1 â€" three of Writing Machines, perform a media-specific analysis of whatever of the texts. How does embodiment role in relation to content? Is this a technotext? Why does information technology matter either way?

Examine either of the hypertexts in relation to the ideas in Aarseth’s chapter on Hyptertext aesthetics. You might address Aarseth’southward statement most hypertext regaining aura (although you’ll too need to be familiar with Benjamin here), the idea of co-authorship, ergodics and the game of narration, or the concept of heterarchy.

Bill Nichols writes, “a tension can be seen to exist between the liberating potential of the cybernetic imagination and the ideological tendency to preserve the existing form of social relations: (627). Clarify this tension in either of the hypertexts or in Neuromancer. I might also do a comparison between one hyptertext and Neuromancer in this area. Remember to consider both course and content.

In “The Seductions of Net,” North. Katherine Hayles writes, “these inversions are consistent with virtual reality, for they figure the menses of information within systems as more determinative of identity than the materiality of physical structures” (306). Use whatever one of the texts to support or refute Hayles’ statement.

Use Haraway’southward or Hayles’ discussion of the cyborg trunk to analyze Frankenstein, Patchwork Daughter, or Neuromancer. How are race or gender or subjectivity in general affected by the relationship between the torso and science/engineering science?

N. Katherine Hayles locates “a masculinist subtext” (315) in relation to cyberspace and virtual reality. Bill Nichols similarly attributes a masculine aura of aggression to videogames and seems to suggest that the allure to cybernetic systems is a “primarily masculine phenomenon” (632). Yet Donna Haraway argues that a critical relationship exists between women and technology. Clarify Neuromancer, Patchwork Girl or l0ve 0ne in terms of the relationship between gender and technology.

Using Frankenstein and one of the afterward texts, examine the idea of the “monstrous” in relation to human nature and technology.

Web Projection

Due Sunday, March 26th past 5:xxx p.1000.

Web Projection Assignment Canvass
English language 10LC Winter 2006

Purpose:

To formulate a thesis regarding i or more than texts from the form.
To provide experience in writing for the web, an increasingly of import format.
To demonstrate your agreement of audition.

Texts:
Whatever of the texts from the syllabus. You may use a text that is not on the syllabus, either a literary or cultural artifact, but you must articulate information technology with me prior to the beginning typhoon existence due.

Background:

All quarter, our writing assignments have been situated within the traditional genre of academic writing. In a form that so heavily focuses on the reinvention of genres, information technology seems only fitting that our culminating projection result in the production of a new type of bookish project â€" a website. You will construct a website generated toward an intelligent, though not necessarily bookish, audience that volition supplement ane or more texts from our syllabus. The goal of the site volition be to enhance the visitor’s understanding of the text(s) in question.

This project allows you considerable creative freedom in composing your statement through both visual and textual means. However, you should note from the “purpose” section that a ‘thesis” is still necessary. In other words, your web projection should take some sort over-arching statement, even if it does not have a traditional “thesis statement.”

Possible approaches to the web-project include, simply are not express to:

A character map of a text.
A glossary for a genre, text or author.
Compose a “soundtrack” to back-trail the course syllabus.
Perform a comparative analysis of genres or texts
Draw parallels between a text from our class and another media course (ex. Poetry and painting; Flash verse and film, etc.)

The Specs:
• 500 words of new writing; this need non be in essay format. Hyperlinks and picture captions do not count toward the 500-word minimum.
• At to the lowest degree 3 separate pages.
• At least two “internal” and 2 “external” hyperlinks â€" a minimum of four links total.
• At least ii visual elements â€" a site logo, photos, animations, etc.

Technical Support:
• Transcriptions Studio
o Gery’due south drop-in hours for the quarter are: Mon – 12 â€" iv, Tues – two â€" 4, Wed – four â€" 6, Thurs – 12 â€" 4
o Delight note that he may take different hours during finals week.
• Dreamweaver
o Dreamweaver is a software tool for creating and publishing your website
o Ii workshops will be held in the Transcriptions Studio, SH 2509
ß Tuesday, March 7th 2pm â€" 4pm
ß Thursday, March 9th 1pm â€" 3pm
ß For the workshop, you volition demand your Umail id and password. If possible, bring a goose egg bulldoze to shop your files; Endeavour to arrive with ideas about your site so that Gery can aid y'all realize your vision!
ß If you cannot attend 1 of the in a higher place workshops and need assist with Dreamweaver, please contact Gery (gegan@umail.ucsb.edu) or myself to arrange a private session
o Macromedia offers a fully functional thirty-twenty-four hours trial version of Dreamweaver. After attending the workshop, if y'all feel comfortable working from dwelling, you may download this trial program onto your ain calculator (http://macromedia.com)
• Boosted Software Bachelor in Transcriptions
o Photoshop â€" for editing and manipulating image files; tin can exist used to design a logo
o Macromedia Flash â€" for animating paradigm files
o Windows Picture Maker and Adobe Premiere â€" video editing software
o Sound editing software
o Adobe Acrobat â€" for making PDF files

Grading Breakup â€" xx points possible

Get-go Draft & Presentation â€" 5 points
Last Draft â€" xv points

Delight note that you are being graded on the effectiveness of your projection, not the technological “slickness” of your website. Animations, sound furnishings, etc. are great but are no substitute for quality content.

Timeline and Due Dates:

Date Assignment
Tue, 3/seven in class Share Web Project Ideas
2pm â€" 4pm Dreamweaver Workshop, SH 2509

Thu, 3/9 1pm â€" 3pm Dreamweaver Workshop, SH 2509

Tue, iii/14 First Draft Due â€" 15 minute presentations

Thu, 3/16 Outset Draft Due â€" fifteen minute presentations

Wed, three/22 (Final Examination Period) First Draft Due â€" 15 minute presentations

Sunday, 3/26 five:xxx p.m. Final Draft Due
E-mail the URL of your website (the web accost) then that I know the projection is complete.

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