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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 is a hard term to define. It is broad and wide ranging. Despite being contemplated heavily by academics for decades, there is no precise and singular definition. Douglas Eyeman sums up the term in a relatively painless way with “digital rhetoric is perhaps most simply defined as the application of rhetorical theory (as […]