Tag Archives: reader-friendly

GUIDE – Make Your Blog Posts Reader-Friendly

CATEGORIES: HOW TO: Use the Class Blog (Wordpress)

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WHAT IS READER-FRIENDLY WRITING? While you’re in school, most of your writing is directed towards a teacher who is obligated to read it. But after college, most of your writing …

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COMMENTARY – Writing as a Design Art

CATEGORIES: PLANNING & DRAFTING New Media Projects, RHETORIC OF DESIGN

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I’ve been telling my students that writing is a “design art” for a while now, as a way of conveying that rhetorically effective writing is about more than stringing words …

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COMMENTARY – The Rhetoric of Interface Design

CATEGORIES: RHETORIC OF DESIGN, TEACHING DIGITAL WRITING

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Below is a short presentation I delivered in a session on Using Digital Tools for writing instructors at CU Boulder. I drew on many resources to develop this condensed version …

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GUIDE – Strategies for Composing Stand-alone Presentations

CATEGORIES: RESOURCES: Presentations & Information Design

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SLIDE VERSION Rhetorical Considerations for Presentation Design from Amy Goodloe ARTICLE VERSION What makes any form of communication “effective”? Following the principles of reader-friendly design. When does a presentation need …

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GUIDE – Rhetorical Strategies for Blog Design

CATEGORIES: RHETORIC OF DESIGN

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The design of the study guide blog includes elements that impact its visual appeal. Although you may not have thought about it this way, you have to make design decisions …

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WEB RESOURCE – Anatomy of Effective Web Design

CATEGORIES: RHETORIC OF DESIGN

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This infographic does a nice job of introducing some basic principles of reader-friendly site design. What appears below is the top portion. To see the full infographic, go to: Anatomy …

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WEB RESOURCES – Designing for the Web: A Tutorial

CATEGORIES: RHETORIC OF DESIGN

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Here’s a helpful resource for learning how to write effectively for web audiences: Designing for the Web: A Tutorial by Mike Markel

COMMENTARY – Design Analysis of D2L: Too Many Clicks

CATEGORIES: RHETORIC OF DESIGN

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(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 …

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COMMENTARY – Design Analysis of Google Docs: Inconsistent Visual Cues

CATEGORIES: RHETORIC OF DESIGN

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(Originally posted on the blog for my section of WRTG 3035: Technical Communication and Design.) (This post serves as an example of what you might contribute under the Design Successes …

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GUIDE – Tips for Building a Course Web Site

CATEGORIES: RHETORIC OF DESIGN, TEACHING DIGITAL WRITING

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UPDATE: See this new post, which expands on some of these suggestions: Rhetorical considerations for online course materials NOTE: These tips are under development, but I’m posting what I have …

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COMMENTARY – Notes on the Rhetorical Nature of Web Design

CATEGORIES: RHETORIC OF DESIGN, TEACHING DIGITAL WRITING

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These are the notes for a presentation I shared with colleagues on August 10, 2011, as part of the PWR Digital Composition Workshop. Notes on the Rhetorical Nature of Web …

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COMMENTARY – Rhetorical rationale for my WRTG 3020 class blog design

CATEGORIES: RHETORIC OF DESIGN, TEACHING DIGITAL WRITING

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This screencast offers a rhetorical rationale for the decisions I made when designing and organizing the WRTG 3020 Summer 2011 Class Blog. I made the screencast for two reasons: to …

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