This course investigates the ways the internet has extended classical and modern rhetorical principles into a postmodern culture. On the one hand, rhetorical principles based on oral and literate traditions still operate in a variety of new media. On the other, computer technology has created new literacies, new forms of writing, and new ways of thinking. After briefly examining oral and literate rhetorics, we will review the work of computers and writing scholars who are coming to terms with these new literacies and then attempt to put these principles into practice. Coursework will consist of weekly one-page responses to the readings, an extensive hypertext project that applies emerging electronic rhetorics, and a final essay that connects the students' interests/fields to the issues discussed in class.