The ability to communicate complex information to a large, sophisticated audience through the rapidly evolving media of new technology is critical to success in today's global business community.  Those with a clear understanding of digital communications and its potential to exchange information, influence opinion and sell products, ideas or services will have the competitive edge.  The purpose of this course is to develop students' understanding and application of the written word in the context of interactive, digital media.  The course will focus on the changing role of writing across time, accentuated by the development of new media in the modern world. The course aims to develop students'  multimodal composing skills required for a range of new media genres that draw on affordances of hypertext, interactivity and multimodality. This course introduces a broad notion of 'writing' which not only includes the ability to use written texts, but also the ability to appropriately use a range of other semiotic resources alongside writing to produce effective multimodal texts.