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New technologies for composition and communication have produced fundamental changes in many aspects of our culture, including mass media, the workplace, and recreation and entertainment. These changes are both reflected and constructed in online environments, in everyday conversations, and in the world beyond computers and their networks. This course represents an inquiry into the dynamics of those changes and an exploration into the technologies that are shaping the new ways that people write, think, work, play, and communicate with each other.

E309M is a composition course about writing in the computer age. our concept of "writing" in these environments is expanded to include

• engaging in real-time written conversations with people who might be in the same room or thousands of miles away
  
  
• creating documents that include not only text but graphics, sound, and video
  
  
• building "webs" and "hypertexts" quite different from conventional print formats
  
  
• creating text-based "spaces" in which we can interact with other people in fictional settings
  

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Questions? Email Peg Syverson: syverson@uts.cc.utexas.edu