ENG 227 - Writing for Social Media

Credit(s): 3

Social media play an increasingly important role in the way communities, businesses, and individuals share information. This course introduces students to the fundamentals of how to compose context for a variety of media platforms. Students will maintain and add content to a website of their own design, updating it with periodic blog entries, PowerPoint presentations, white papers and e-books, podcasts, videos, and other media. Students will study both the technical skills they will need to produce this media as well as strategies for writing effectively and professionally in electronic formats.

Offered: F, Sp, Su