ENGL307: Digital Writing

A step by step way to manage your online identity.

A step by step way to manage your online identity.

How to fix your online identity.

How to fix your online identity.

A website dedicated to design elements.

A website dedicated to design elements.

ehow is a great resource for just about anything you might want to learn to do.

ehow is a great resource for just about anything you might want to learn to do.

7 step guide to creating a formal business report.

Here are a few samples of what formal business reports should look like.

Here are a few samples of what formal business reports should look like.

The visual flow of an interface does matter, and here's why: Every interface screen should have a primary action or actions that are to be performed. The visual flow should naturally draw the eye to the primary action. << This resource explains why visual flow matters. 

"The visual flow should naturally draw the eye to the primary action."

This ad uses flow because the entire ad flows from left to the right with the help of the colorful pot which draws your eye to the phrase.

The viewer's eyes are at first drawn to the left because the ad looks off the billboard, but then the reader sees the name of the fitness center which leads to the overweight gentleman on the right of the ad. Follows natural flow of left to right.

Good visual flow exists when the viewer of your page takes a tour through all of its elements, understanding what's important, taking in the key pieces and avoiding snags or dead-ends.

"Good visual flow exists when the viewer of your page takes a tour through all of its elements, understanding what's important, taking in the key pieces and avoiding snags or dead-ends"

Shows how to improve verbal flow

How to position elements to achieve verbal and visual flow

Using social media for professional and personal use.

Review of suggested further reading on the subject

Board devoted to copyright stuff, generally news and explanatory stuff.

Sort of a guide to figuring out what is and isn't fair use

A lengthy discussion of new media, how it's defined, and its implications.

Chapter 1 of Design Fundamentals is all about trying to define new media. This site's main function is to help people have a better understanding concerning communications throughout the internet. New media is constantly being redefined because technology and forms of communication through technology are constantly evolving and developing. This site helped me not only understand better what is considered to be new media today, but can help me in the future as new media evolves and the definition changes.

Skepticism follows these background check services.

Background checks from jobseeker's perspective.

continuing the argument of whether or not it is more important to keep your identity on the internet private.

"An online identity can be as permanent as an offline one: pseudonymous users often identify themselves in different social networks using the same account name"

"in the age of social networks and Web 2.0, we become the agents of our own undoing. And therefore, discussions about identity must be fashioned with a subtler clay. At every juncture-morning, noon and night-we redefine our own identities"