Friday, March 10, 2006
A Snappier Title
Help! I need a catchy title for the digital writing course I'm teaching next fall. I've been racking my brain for a half hour now, running through titular possibilities and trying to land a phrase with enough pizzazz to spark interest and compel enrollments. Here are a few that I've ruled out (fine...so what if a few of these are still in the running, the running is thin).
- WRT302: Status 405 Method Not Allowed
- WRT302: Effectively Banning Virtual Shenanigans
- WRT302: Writing Teachnologies: Chalk, Dry Erase Markers and Smartboards
- WRT302: Two-Button Mice and Macs
- WRT302: Dude, Where's My Jump Drive?
- WRT302: The Pop-up Experience: Digidipity and Exasperation
- WRT302: Three-hole Punchers as Overlooked Writing Technology
- WRT302: Minimize, Restore Down, Close: The Abundant Adaptabilities of Windows
- WRT302: BRB: Dearest Cyber...I've Missed You
- WRT302: Investigating the Rising Cost of Grounded Plug Adapters
- WRT302: Discordant Coloration: From Painting the Screen to Painting the Walls
- WRT302: Climbing Beneath the Desk to Untangle Wires: A Gordian Approach
- WRT302: Wired Panaceas: Now Don't You Feel Better?
- WRT302: Wifi, Bird-flu and Other Untreatable Stuff in the Air
- WRT302: Familiar Voltage: My Uncle's An Electrician
- WRT302: ASCII, We Hardly Knew Ye
Maybe it will come to me when I slide into the MRI tube later today for a good going-over of my knee.
Posted by Derek Mueller at March 10, 2006 9:15 AM
to Dry Ogre Chalking
How about WRT 302: What is Digital Writing, Anyway?
Posted by: Jon Benda at March 10, 2006 10:00 AMWriting Screens
(from your description) (and no i'm not kiddin)
OR . . .
digital � writing
(from yr blog . . . think about it . . . .)
Posted by: gr at March 10, 2006 5:08 PMokay, i was serious on both of the above, but . . . .
WRT 302: Writing: It's Digital, Stupid!
WRT 302: Digital Writing: It's Not Just For Geeks Anymore
WRT 302: Digital Writing: Quill Pen Meets Pocket Protector
WRT 302: Digital Writing: Clip Art Comes of Age
and of course . . . .
WRT 302: Digital Writing: Tastes Like Chicken
Good luck with the title AND the MRI!
Posted by: senioritis at March 10, 2006 6:22 PMI *love* the gordian knot one--perhaps because I spent an hour unplugging and replugging and dusting and labelling and...all in the hopes that this would resolve a problem with the PC...*sigh*
Posted by: susansinclair at March 10, 2006 10:52 PMOkay, D. The title that would get to register would be
WRT 307: Wifi, Why try, Why cry? Technical writing for the proletariat (and technical) mind.
Hope your knee is terrific!
Posted by: Denise at March 11, 2006 12:18 PMDrumroll (if you're into that kind of thing): I'm going with "The Digital and Its Links." Sexy, eh?
D. said I need to rethink my idea of "sexy," but I was working along the lines of sweat pants after jeans or ice tea on a hot day...more like comfort, familiarity and appeal.
Title's a riff on Roland Barthes' entry in _RB_, "The Cuttlefish and Its Ink." Maybe an entry on that soon... [Added: here]
Thanks everybody for the great suggestions.
Posted by: Derek at March 11, 2006 1:00 PMI'd like to try out this title: "The Sociology of Why Computers, Like, Totally Hate You Or Something."
Seems like it might be a big hit with students.
Posted by: jenny at March 11, 2006 9:59 PMGood one. And depending on the room assignment, it could go on with this subtitle: "A Course On Computers In Which We Never Get Around To Using Them." I think I might've had that class as an undergrad; that, or I somehow missed the days we used the PCs.
Posted by: Derek at March 12, 2006 8:50 AM