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.
How about WRT 302: What is Digital Writing, Anyway?
Writing Screens
(from your description) (and no i’m not kiddin)
OR . . .
digital � writing
(from yr blog . . . think about it . . . .)
okay, 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!
I *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*
Okay, 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!
Drumroll (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.
I’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.
Good 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.