this course we will look at what Jay David Bolter calls writing spaces—those online and in-print areas where texts are written, read, and manipulated. We will consider how the latest technologies are blurring the distinction between writer and reader, author and subject, and text and image. Indeed, much of our time will be spent thinking about the language of images and how one reads images on the page and on the screen. Ultimately our discussions will ask us to question what, in our technologized and visual world, writing is, and how images have been and are being used as evidence to both support and supplant it.
Although the course will involve a substantial reading component, our primary focus will be on your writing. We will have three primary writing projects, each of which will ask us to explore writing in a different medium and with different rhetorical goals. Most reading assignments will be accompanied by a prompt which will ask you to respond in an online forum, thereby beginning discussion of the text prior to class and extending in-class discussions outside of the walls of the classroom. Other assignments may ask you to engage in online chat,and still others will ask you to discuss photographs that you have taken. Each of the larger assignments will have rough and final drafts. 
The rough drafts will be critiqued by your classmates.
Many of the images we will be looking at are upsetting—because of their subject matter and because of the way they have been used in print and online media to exploit, categorize, and define. 
As a result, it will be especially important for us to realize that different people respond to images in different ways, to respect the various reactions, and try to understand why they happen. Indeed, as Luc Sante writes at the end of his essay, "Evidence," "As we look [at these pictures] the clocks have all stopped, the air is going out of the world, the great glass bell is descending on the circumference. There is no place for us outside this frame, nothing to breathe, nowhere to stand. We cannot be the viewer of such a scene. We must have forgotten: We are the subject."
