Consider LiteracyWRA150The Evolution of American Thought

Michigan State UniversitySpring 2006

Suzanne Webb

Consider Literacy

Reading & Writing The Web & Electronic Media

Reading & Writing

Reading

Our Text: Considering Literacy As examples of our nation’s literacy

issues As examples in our own lives

Like or unlike our lives?

The Web: Scholarly Essays As scholarly examples of Literacy As examples of where we are heading

Our increasing writing abilities

Writing

Writing Essays Exemplification Compare & Contrast Analysis Argument

Supporting Your Argument

Argument

Supporting Your Argument Know your Audience Is there only one?

Who Are They? Scholars The General Public Computer Savvy

Argument: Audience(s)

General AudiencesAudience on the web

Who is that End-User? Specific Audiences

TeachersFellow StudentsPotential EmployersGraduate School CommitteesFuture Collegues

Supporting The Argument

Written Essay PowerPoint Slide Show Poster Board Competition Brochures Website Press Release

Argument: The Audience

Reaching the Audience Touching the Audience

Making them Care

Convincing the Audience Covering the “other side”

Argument: Audience(s)

The Hostile Audience

Taking a Stance

Argument: Presenting Findings Specific Audiences

ConferencesPresenting Your FindingsPresenting Yourself

Know your MaterialDressing for Success

The Web Reading What is Written

Legibility Readability Audience Color Font Choice CRAP The Principles of Graphic Design

Contrast Repetition Alignment Proximity

The Web

Reading What is Written Reading What is Left Out

Literary Theory Tone

Fun Serious Trustworthy

The Web

It all comes down to…

Usability

If it’s not usable, literacy declines.

Tying it All Together

Ethics

Tying it All Together

Networking Promoting Yourself

Tying it All Together

The way presentation affects literacy How to Present Yourself

To Employers To Collegues To Teachers To Graduate Committees To the World

HowWillYouBe Read?