For this post I’ll be looking at the six sources I chose for this assignment—three academic sources and three non-academic sources. Choosing sources was a little difficult because of how many of them there are, but I was able to make choices regardless. Without further adieu, let’s begin. Academic Sources Game Studies I chose this […]
I’ve learned a lot by looking at the Kairos Journal. It is a very interesting site that holds an incredible amount of knowledge. To me, it seems like the journal is writing towards a relatively broad audience, but with a little bit of a focus on those already interested in rhetoric, intellectual property, composition, etc. […]
To get a more through understanding of Selfe’s text, one must know the terms she uses. One of these terms is rhetorical sovereignty. This a very academic term that can be hard to understand. She defines rhetorical sovereignty as, “the rights and responsibilities that students have to identify their own communicative needs and to represent […]
In her essay The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal Composing, Cynthia Selfe discusses a variety of important points. The thing that stands out to me most in the text is the need for a variety of teaching mediums. These would include things like audio, written text, images, etc. Her focus […]
It is easier to understand Yancey’s article with a better understanding of the terms she uses. The first term to be familiar with is circulation. One may think of their public library when they hear circulation, but circulation means more than that. In this context, circulation is when texts “move across contexts, between media, across […]
In Kathleen Blake Yancey’s article, there is an abundance of useful information. One key takeaway for me was the idea that different types of writing are really just genres. As a music nerd, this comparison made sense. Email is inherently different than journalism in the same way jazz is inherently different than bluegrass. Our modern […]
One important term used in George’s text is design. This is a word that gets used a lot, but it has an important meaning in this context. Most simply, design is the visual look of the text. Though it’s easy to overlook, things like margins, fonts, size, color, etc. have a huge impact on the […]
Diana George’s From Analysis to Design: Visual Communication in the Teaching of Writing has a lot in common with some of the texts discussed in previous posts. One of these commonalities is simply the emphasis put on the importance of visual communication. George opens the text with a powerful anecdote of a teacher using maps […]
Since multiiteracy is a complicated topic, it may be easier to understand the term in another form—video. Linked below are videos that help ones understanding of the term multiliteracy. This video is helpful in understanding multiliteracy because it simplifies the term. It gives a short and digestible overview of the term. It can often be […]
To understand multiliteracies, one must understand a variety of terms. The first term to know is multiliteracy itself. Multiliteracy is the idea that in our modern world, there is no such thing as singular literacy. Just knowing one form of English isn’t enough to make someone literate in the digital age. To be fully literate, […]
Digital Rhetoric 