Wikipedia:Canada Education Program/Courses/The Rhetoric of Digital and Interactive Media Environments WI13 (Rhonda McEwen)/Course description

Course description
This course critically examines the written, visual, aural, and dynamic rhetoric as it pertains to communications for academic and other purposes across a range of digital and interactive media discourses. Over 12 weeks you will be engaged in reading and writing as these fundamental skills apply to digital and interactive media contexts – such as assessing and writing for: academic venues; radio shows or podcasts; websites; advertising and marketing; corporate communications; brand development; and wikis.

Each lecture is divided into two parts: mechanics and media. In the mechanics half you will learn a technical aspect of writing each week, and in the media half we examine examples of how these techniques are actualized in different digital and interactive media environments, as these represent channels within which we write. Guest lectures will join us from time to time in support of our adventure. We will also draw on knowledge from CCT 109 to observe rhetoric, logic, reasoning, and critical thinking in writing expressed in audio, visual, tactile and networked environments.

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