Questions Re: Internet Invention (Part I)
As the title says. . .
Then the daily work of students in class meetings and email lists is to use the readings, lectures, tapes, websites, as sources from which must be derived the instructions for completing the assignment. Assignments usually include a required “guide” or recipe, collectively brain-stormed, that explains the “rules” for making that website, and the maker’s specific plans or proposal for performing the task. (6-7)
and later:
[Writing on using students’ materials in shaping the widesite.] Translate them into instructions to be applied to the details relevant to your own case. (23)
So a question for those readers more experienced with mystory. Is the value of the mystory genre on the “instructions” or on the final product, the mystory itself? (Of course, I acknowledge, they both have value, but I’m trying to establish where the value lies in case I ever want to teach the mystory.)
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