Introduction to Web Authoring

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Introduction toWeb Authoring
Session 3
www.msu.edu/hartdav2/wa.html

• Bill Hart-Davidson
• hartdav2_at_msu.edu
• AIM billhd30

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Today in Class

• What is a Genre on the Web?
• Product Reviews
• Activity review your html/css reference book,
  post the review, and link to it from your project
  page

• For Next Time
• 1. Basic Grid Layouts using Tables (the old way)
• 2. The Onion - a parody site examined

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Genres

• Our disciplinary definition
• A habitual response to a recurring social
  situation.
• Traces of the response are recognizable as
  regularities of textual form.

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A genre on the web

• Product Reviews
• http//www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B00032G1S0/002-798103
  2-8302431?SubscriptionId1EEPBXMS706HVDX0D182
• Obviouslya parody

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Discuss What is a Product Review?

• Who writes?
• Who reads?
• What are the parts?
• What makes one useful/good?

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Try it! Write and Post a Review

• Create a review of your HTML/CSS reference book
  that you have chosen for this class.
• Post your review.
• Add a link to your review to your WRA 210 project
  page.

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For Next Time

• 1. Basic Grid Layouts using Tables (the old way)
• 2. The Onion - a parody site examined