Week
9 -- April 9
writing strategies and plans
* follow-up -- critique of analytical, technical illustrations and texts; review and discuss articles from general interest publications.
* in class -- segmenting for emphatic purposes, delimiting background, moving from the familiar to less familiar, fixing on points to elaborate in your final project.
* for our next class on web authoring -- 1) Survey 21w.780 student web pages at http://web.mit.edu/21w.780/jackk/video/stu.htm.
2) Access and review guidelines at http://web.mit.edu/acs/webguide/. Particularly important references are http://web.mit.edu/acs/WebGuide/graphics.html and http://web.mit.edu/acs/webguide/design.html. You can find good formatting references at the w3 html 4.01 website, http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/.
* assignment, as a second stage of the final project, emailed to jackk@mit.edu as well as posted to your alias folder by noon April 17 -- status report outlining and previewing components of the final project paper (750-1000 words).