It's that time again. Classes start on Tues, so what better time than now to try to reshape a syllabus? My experiment having students contribute to and actually write individual Wikipedia entries last semester rasied a lot of interesting issues for me and them. As an instructor, I became very interested in the issues surrounding intellectual property, intellectual collaboration, and how the former informs the latter, especially as students think about their work. A few of them were frustrated by the fact that publishing their work to Wikipedia meant that to a certain extent they were no longer the "author" in the way they conceived of it, and also many of them had their work taken down or worse yet not published to begin with, for a variety of reasons. I'm not repeating the assignment (though it was by far the most popular) for these and other reasons, but it get me thinking seriously about intellectual property issues.

Hey folks,

I'm sure someone out there has had students do a rhetorical analysis of a website. If so, I'd like to take a look at your assignment. Thanks, Jan