Sample Assignments | Digital Writing 101

(Originally posted on the blog for my section of WRTG 3035: Technical Communication and Design.) Here’s another entry into our collection of design successes and failures. As the “designer” in …

This is an archived version of an Instructions Project assignment I used for WRTG 3035 in Fall 2011. To view their final projects, browse the Final Instructions Projects category on …

To see an early version of a digital narrative assignment I used in my WRTG 3020 on the rhetoric of gender and sexuality, view this page: WRTG 3020 Digital Personal …

This is an archived version of an assignment I used in WRTG 2090 that asked students to edit an existing article on wikiHow.com, as part of the process of becoming …

This is an archived version of an activity that asks students to share a digital literacy tip with their classmates, which I used in WRTG 2090 in Spring 2011. SHARE …

This is an archived version of an assignment I’ve used in WRTG 1150 and WRTG 2090 that asks students to write an instructions article for the collaboratively edited site, wikiHow.com …

Below is an audio essay assignment I used in a WRTG 1150 and WRTG 2090 (Writing for Digital Media) class. If I assign an audio-only project again, I will revise …

Below is a brief version of an assignment I’ve used in WRTG 1150 and WRTG 2090. I have a long version somewhere, which I’ll post if/when I find it. Topics …

I used this assignment for my Spring 2011 sections of WRTG 3020. You can find some of the projects produced for this assignment in the Research Projects category on my …

I don’t often teach WRTG 1150, but the last time I did (in Fall 2010), we focused on digital literacy as a topic and a practice. Students composed digital literacy …

NOTE: I used the assignment below for my Fall 2010 sections of WRTG 3020. This is an archived version of the assignment, which I’ve since transformed into a Digital Storytelling …

I used the following assignment in my WRTG 1150 class, as a way of introducing rhetorical awareness and the importance of structure and clarity. You can see some of their …