Materials & Texts

Sams Teach Yourself HTML and XHTML in 10 Minutes. By Deidre Hayes. 3rd ed. MacMillan Computer Pub., 2002. A compact, task-oriented tutorial that shows you how to design and create eye-catching Web pages, customize the appearance of your page's headings and text, add graphics, images, backgrounds, and color, organize pages with tables and lists, embed movies, sound, and animation, and publish pages to a Web server. The book covers only those HTML tags and technologies that are likely to be used on a beginner's Web page, and it is organized in a logical step-by-step order.

Too Good to be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends. By Jan Harold Brunvand. W.W. Norton and Company, 1999. Alligators in the sewers? A pet in the microwave? A tragic misunderstanding of the function of cruise control? No, it didn't really happen to your friend's sister's neighbor: It's an urban legend. And no matter how savvy you think you are, you are sure to find at least one story in this colossal collection you would have sworn was true. Jan Harold Brunvand has been collecting this modern folklore for over twenty years. In Too Good to Be True, he captures the best stories in their best retellings, along with their latest variations and examples of how the stories have changed as they move from person to person and place to place.

Writing with Style. By John R. Trimble. 2nd ed. Prentice Hall, 2000. A concise, witty, practical book on style that is as entertaining as it is genuinely instructive. Designed to equip the student with all the essentials needed to be a confident, selfsufficient writer. Provides practical tips and fundamentals.

Other Materials & Texts

The Allyn & Bacon Handbook. By Leonard J. Rosen and Laurence Behrens. 4th ed. Allyn & Bacon, 2000.

A course packet of supplemental reading materials available at Johnny Print, 547 S. Limestone St.

University Of Kentucky English 101-102/105 Source Book. Fall/Spring 2000-2001.

A recent edition of a standard collegiate dictionary (American Heritage, Webster's, etc.).

A blank 3-1/2" diskette.

Student Computing Accounts

You must also have an E-MAIL ACCOUNT for communication with me and other members of the class, and a SWEB ACCOUNT for storing your own personal Web page. These accounts are free to registered UK students. You can create your computing accounts online via the User Account Management System (UAMS) from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, or you can visit User Account Services in McVey Hall, room 113.