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Bullinger
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Repurposing
Project I made a small change in this assignment starting in the Spring of 2003. You are to base your repurposing on a text that you have already written. This change is based on concerns about copyright (though no one has complained) and an observation that in the past the best repurposing projects have tended to be ones where students adapted their own text to an electronic environment. Because it is your writing, you can cut and edit that writing to make it an effective webtext. The text that you choose can be any genre: a paper, a report, a manual, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, children's literature, ephemera, etc. The assignment has one other requirement. Your website must consist of more than one page and your pages need to be linked together into a navigational scheme that is appropriate for your content. The purpose of this assignment, beyond getting started with web authoring is to get you to think about the relationship betweenb print and electronic documents and to focus on issues of linking and navigation in a context where you do not also have to worry about generating text. In most cases, you will also need to think about selection and compression. Many print texts are too long to be effective on the web. You may need to compress and revise them to work effectively in a new medium. My major advice is: Keep this project manageable. It is your first project. You should be able to finish it by the deadline and move on. In the reflective paper that you write for this assignment, tell me, why you choose your text, how you changed the text for the web, why you segmented the texts into individual pages in the manner that you did, and how in your view the web version is different from the print (whether better or worse). How does the web add to or take away from the experience of reading your document? This paper may be done as a webtext and linked to your project or turned in on paper. Either way is fine with me. I am happy to read a draft of this essay, but it is not required. In the Repurposing proposal, tell me what you have chosen, why you chose it, how you plan to segment the print text into web pages, how users will navigate between your pages. Include a copy of the text you are using with the proposal. You can draw a picture of what your first page will look like and a map of the site. Check the schedule for deadlines
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English 351: "Hypertext"
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