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Watershed: Developing an Online Journal. Emily Arcuri , Nino Cosoleto -Miller, Hannah Jones, Alyssa Wernham. Overview. An interdisciplinary, literary journal Comprised of local author submissions Characterized by the Susquehanna River region Professor Jerry Wemple - Editor
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Watershed:Developing an Online Journal Emily Arcuri, Nino Cosoleto-Miller, Hannah Jones, Alyssa Wernham
Overview • An interdisciplinary, literary journal • Comprised of local author submissions • Characterized by the Susquehanna River region • Professor Jerry Wemple- Editor • A supplemental online version for preview purposes • Raise awareness and increase readership and submission • Promote a new medium, called “techno-rhetoric”
Editing • Editing was a collaborative effort • Design editing • Links and navigation • Textual editing • Syntax, spelling, typos • Formatting (poetry)
Group Communication • Used a class wiki • Uploaded files, posted updates • A streamlined, organized manner of patchworking our group roles together functionally • Required frequent usage outside of classroom
Usability Testing • Our group learning moment • Offered revisions, spotted problems we were oblivious to • Provided various, external perspectives • A potential reader • A potential contributor and consumer • Without usability testing, the quality of the final product would have been negatively impacted
Usability Recommendations • Poetry needs to be left justified, but centered in the page. • Prose needs to be resized to create larger margins and to avoid the need to scroll from left to right. • Somehow, we need to make the links on the homepage more legible for those with poorer eyesight • Similarly, the textual links in the “Cousin, Will You Take My Hand?” poem need to become more readable. • The photograph on the About page needs to be resized to eliminate the need to scroll left to right. • The Jason Godeke author biography blurb needs to be added.
Collaboration (Emily) • All roles helping eachother
Professional Writing • Software skills • Practical skills • Experience with group work • More marketable for a wider range of career possibilities
Final Product • Online Watershed Journal