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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”

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”

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”

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”

The meaning of the term “digital rhetoric”, has gone through some change throughout different centuries. Starting with its earliest inception in ancient Greek, Aristotle believed rhetoric to be the “art of finding out the available means of persuasion for a given argument” (1991, 37). As pointed out by Aristotle, rhetoric is the practice of persuasiveContinue reading “Digital Rhetoric: What does it mean?”