Topic: Links and the New Media Economy

Due Today: Ex 3: Audience and Style Variations

The way we write depends heavily on the context in which we write. 1) Look through your archives, and find a personal e-mail (or chat transcript) and a more professional e-mail (or a letter you sent on paper). Identify and eplain the reaons for several specific differences. (200 words). 2) Rewrite the personal message in the style of a formal e-mail, and rewrite the formal communication in the style of an informal chat transcript. Play the role of the recipient, and write back in the same style, or a comletely different style. Be creative. (300 words.) 3) Write up a list of 3 significant issues you feel this exercise has illustrated, or questions it has raised in your mind. Refer specifically to material we have already covered in the course. (150 words.)

Assigned Text: Enemark, ''It's all about me: Why e-mails are so easily misunderstood''

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0515/p13s01-stct.html/

Assigned Text: Castro, Creating a Web Page with HTML

Introduction; pages 2 & 3.

Topic: Introduction to HTML

Group work.

Start working on section 1. Aim to get to page 25 by the 18th.