Writing For the Web (course number still pending as of March 2022) is an evolution and adaptation – a hybrid of courses like ENC 3213 & 3249 (Technical and Professional Writing) and ENC 3416 (Writing and New Media).
This course is a practical, hands-on web writing course. Unlike ENC 3213 & 3249, all work is composed online and publicly: it is posted to the Internet for all the world to see, but like those courses, this work is intended for professional development (or something like it, e.g. nonprofit organization, community awareness, etc.). Unlike ENC 3416, the work is meant to be entirely pragmatic versus the strong theoretical & historical tack of Writing and New Media, but like 3416, Writing for the Web is acutely aware of emerging technology and how that intersects matters of authorship and readership.
This blog will be a place for students and any other observers to “check the temperature” of the discipline at FIU. How are we doing, overall? What seems to be a big hurdle? Where did we really “nail it”? What’s working? What would we like to see?
While this blog is starting out as a bellwether and update locus for the newly developed Web Writing course, it is also Dr. Malesh’s online blog at FIU and so will include all sorts of comments on student development, curricular changes, and emerging scholarship.
All posts are public and, at least from the outset, should allow for comments.
Welcome to Writing for the Web at FIU!