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Since the late 1990s, the Writing Program at Rutgers University has offered a course entitled Web Authoring. This course is situated within the business and technical writing division of the Writing Program. Web Authoring is very popular, with three or four sections filling each semester. A summer section of the course also draws students in. Institutional factors at Rutgers contribute to the course's popularity. Offered as a component in the certificate program in Business Writing or Technical Writing, the course attracts students on a professional track in education. Perhaps more importantly, Web Authoring is the only significant web development course offered at Rutgers for students not majoring in information systems or computer science. Technological literacy is no longer the exclusive domain of computer geeks. At Rutgers, however, students with an interest in technology have few credit-bearing options for exploring that interest. Web Authoring fills that institutional void. In Web Authoring, students begin with a series of small web development assignments. These assignments are often part of a larger collaborative web development project that concludes midway through the course. The collaborative model creates an opportunity for students with web development skills to become mentors to students with no development background. It also makes possible a simulation of the collaborative nature of web development in most organizational settings. The central project in the course is a fully functional website on a subject of the student's own choosing. Generally, these final projects are informational websites that reveal the students' hobbies, interests, or jobs.
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#FFFFFF, #000000, & #808080: Hypertext Theory and WebDev in the Composition Classroom Michael J. Cripps, York College, City University of New York |
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