Madeleine Sorapure

Writing 155A: Document Design and Production (Winter 2022)

Information design in print media; focus on grammatical and rhetorical expertise. Project-based course with a focus on understanding the intersections of writing and visual design. Major project is a brand style guide.

Writing 155B: Digital Portfolio (Spring 2022)

Creation of digital work using software and coding. The major project is the design and production of a professional website, using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WordPress, and other tools. Focus on developing effective design and communication skills within a digital environment.

Writing 105M: Multimedia Writing (Spring 2022)

A course focused on analyzing and creating multimedia compositions. Projects in the Summer 2018 course approached data collection, analysis, and visualization from a variety of perspectives. The students did amazing work.

INT 94WD: Writing and Designing for the Web (Winter 2021)

This is a project-based course in which students create a website or blog on a subject of their choice. They define topic and audience, learn key characteristics of effective web writing and design, and create a multimedia, interactive, engaging website or blog using WordPress.

INT 94VA: Responsive and Accessible Web Design Made (Sort of) Easy (Spring 2019)

In 10 weeks, students learn enough HTML and CSS to be able to modify a website template and make it their own. The website can be used for academic, professional, and personal work. We also cover strategies for designing sites that are responsive on different devices, accessible to a range of users, and rhetorically effective in conveying content.

Dear Data

This webtext, published in Kairos and co-written with my former student Austin Fauni, discusses a Dear Data project that I did in a Summer 2018 section of Writing 105M.

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Text visualization

I'm interested in typography, text/image combinations, and text visualization.

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