To access a shared collection, click on the small triangle to the left of Collections Shared with Me, as shown below. Then click on the title of the collection and … Continue reading STEP-BY-STEP LOGGING IN After you’ve created a Google Account, you can use it to log into Google Docs. (1) To log in, […]
Being able to highlight passages and put notes on a PDF file is extremely useful, particularly for students who don’t want to have to print out lots of documents but … Continue reading Being able to put highlight passages in and put notes on a PDF file is extremely useful, particularly for students who don’t […]
Multimedia applications on Mac and Windows computers don’t always make it easy to save or export files in a format that any computer can open, so if you find yourself … Continue reading NOTE: I took a break from working on this site for the 2012-2013 academic year, but I will resume updates starting with […]
A screen shot is an image of what appears on your computer screen. You can capture the whole screen or just a small portion of it. Below are instructions on … Continue reading GUIDE TO TAKING SCREEN SHOTS: WINDOWS VISTA AND 7 (Note: I don’t have Windows, so I’ve created these instructions based on material […]
Try the following strategies to help you improve the structure of your paper. Study Guide Strategy This strategy works for any type of paper but is particularly effective for papers … Continue reading (Taken from an old handout; subject to revision) Much of what we teach in writing classes is based on research into how […]
I know “conventions” is kind of a funny word, but I’m using it because that’s the word that shows up on the state-mandated learning goals for all writing classes, as … Continue reading NOTE: When you go to the CU Library main page, you’ll see a search window you can use to search Chinook, which […]
If you make a PowerPoint presentation that contains a lot of images, the file might end up being quite large in size, particularly if the images you used were very … Continue reading ON THE WEB 50 Ways to Tell a Story Jason Ohler’s Digital Storytelling site Storytelling and new media narrative Digitales Educational Uses […]
If you’re planning to write for real web audiences, you might want to check out the new Web Writing Style Guide published by a few of the editors of Writing Spaces. This style guide was the result of a Computers & Writing “collaborative sprint” earlier this year. Here’s the description of the guide on the […]
The options on this page are subject to further development. Under some approaches I’ve included links to samples from previous students in my WRTG 3020 classes. Current students should keep … Continue reading (I wrote this handout to address the value of planning a written project, but the the principles apply equally well to the […]
Below is an ever-expanding list of the software applications I recommend you have available, even if only in free trial mode, in order to work on digital composition projects. I do not recommend investing in higher end versions of apps until you’ve maxed out the capabilities of the lower-end versions. For example, there’s no need […]
STEP 1: ROUGH DRAFT If you’d like to produce an audio essay, the first step is to write a rough draft the same way you would for any other kind … Continue reading Below are a few resources to help you find materials that have already been labelled for re-use, sometimes under certain conditions. When […]
The options on this page are subject to further development. Under some approaches I’ve included links to samples from previous students in my WRTG 3020 classes. Current students should keep in mind that these samples may have been produced in response to a different sort of assignment than what they’re working on, possibly even something […]
(I’ll use this post to feature a few student videos that aren’t easily available on my other sites.) Here’s a video by three of my Fall 2011 WRTG 3035 students, which they created to showcase some resources they wish they’d been more familiar with when they were incoming engineering students. They’re hoping to have it […]
I’ve been trying to remember to archive all of my digital composition assignments under the Archiving category on my main web site, but I’m sure I’ve left some out. The entries under that category contain both the original assignments as well as links to student projects produced in response to those assignments.
