Aural Composing This method of teaching goes against the traditional style of teaching writing composition. In regards to this she writes that aurality creates functioning literate citizens that live in a world where “communications cross geopolitical, cultural, and linguistic borders and are enriched rather than diminished by semiotic dimensionality”. This might help writers by havingContinue reading “Digital Rhetoric: The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning Terms”
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Digital Rhetoric: The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning
Overview: In Cynthia Self’s article entitled The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning, she argues that writing composition in America is deeply flawed. Selfe goes as far to say that this curriculum limits our “professional understanding of composing as a multimodal rhetorical activity and deprive students of valuable semiotic resources for making meaning”. IContinue reading “Digital Rhetoric: The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning”
Digital Rhetoric: Made Not Only in Words Terms
Composition: “We already inhabit a model of communication practices incorporating multiple genres realated to each other, those multiple genres remediated across contexts of time and space, linked one to the next, circulating across and around rhetorical situations both inside and outside of school” (Yancey). Curriculum: “Developing a new curriculum for the 21st century, a curriculumContinue reading “Digital Rhetoric: Made Not Only in Words Terms”
Digital Rhetoric: Made Not Only in Words
Overview: In Kathleen Yancey’s work entitled, Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key, she addresses the way literacy has progressed over the years. More specifically, how literacy has adapted with todays technology. Yancey opens up with the line, “Literacy today is in the midst of a tectonic change” (Yancey). She mentions howContinue reading “Digital Rhetoric: Made Not Only in Words”
Digital Rhetoric: From Analysis to Design Terms
Visuals: Visuals (be they paintings, films, comic books, or television narratives) were to be studied in the same way as literary texts, as subject of close analysis–a use of the visual that continues throughout the history of writing instruction. Design: To talk of literacy instruction in terms of design means to ask writers to drawContinue reading “Digital Rhetoric: From Analysis to Design Terms”
Digital Rhetoric: From Analysis to Design
In Diana George’s article entitled “From Analysis to Design”, she discusses how visual communication is brought into the classroom and the impact it has on students. George makes the argument that “visual literacy” should be taught in classes as students have grown up with aggressive visual culture. She states, “it is crucial to understand howContinue reading “Digital Rhetoric: From Analysis to Design”
Digital Rhetoric: Videos 2
This video gives a crash course on the idea of multiliteracy. For people going in blind, the above explanation is useful as the whole ideology can be daunting at first glance. The above video clip introduces multiliteracies in regards to the field of education. It also explains the term pedagogy, and how it applies toContinue reading “Digital Rhetoric: Videos 2”
Digital Rhetoric: Multiliteracies & Terms
According to the article, the term “multiliteracies” describes two important arguments in regards to immerging culture. The first argument “engages with the multiplicity of communication channels and media” (Cope & Kalantzis). The second argument increases the “salience of cultural and linguistic diversity” (Cope & Kalantzis). Language – The art of language has changed form whenContinue reading “Digital Rhetoric: Multiliteracies & Terms”
Digital Rhetoric: Chapter 1
In chapter one of Eyman’s textbook, he focuses on defining the term digital rhetoric. In regards to this definition he states, “the term digital rhetoric is perhaps most simply defined as the application of rhetorical theory to digital texts and performances” (Eyman 44). He breaks down the term digital rhetoric into different fields which areContinue reading “Digital Rhetoric: Chapter 1”
Digital Rhetoric: Videos
The above video is discussing the basics of digital rhetoric and is useful for beginners. Another useful video for beginners for more perspective. This TED talk dives deep into the first incarnations of rhetoric by Aristotle and how it relates with todays technology. It gives insight on the persuasive angle of rhetoric.
The Guide 