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”
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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”