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Help a Neighbor Learn to Read: An Informational Home Page

You are a volunteer designing and writing the home page for Literacy Memphis, an organization that provides adults instruction in basic reading skills.

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You are a volunteer for Literacy Memphis, which provides adults instruction in basic reading skills.

In the past five years, the number of students served by Literacy Memphis has increased dramatically. The organization needs more volunteer tutors.

The purpose of your Web site is to interest other Memphians in the organization and, more specifically, to encourage them to volunteer as tutors.

Read Your Files

File 1: Literacy Memphis

File 2: Literacy Memphis in the News

File 3: Illiteracy in the U.S. and around the World

File 4: HTML and Clip Art

Design and Create Your Web Site

After reading your files, you’ll be ready to begin the preparatory work necessary to produce an effective Web site. This work will include:

  • Thinking about your rhetorical situation
  • Looking carefully at your assignment
  • Asking questions
  • Using an effective means of generating ideas
  • Thinking about your use of words and images
  • Developing a plan and focus for your Web site
  • Deciding on graphs, tables, and charts

Make sure to consult the section on creating Web sites in the handbook. You might also surf the Web and examine the Web sites of organizations like Literacy Memphis.

We recommend that you consult The Penguin Handbook as you work on this assignment. We also suggest that you use some of the Writing in the World Worksheets, which are designed to offer you specific guidance at all stages of the writing process.

About These Files

The individuals, organizations, and publications listed in these files are entirely fictional. We have created these documents so that you may learn how to use sources effectively and appropriately before conducting original research of your own.

The information included in File 3 is authentic, however. The file cites the sources from which we have drawn these statistics.

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