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I have learned a lot from taking this class. Some concepts that really resonated with me and helped me succeed with my final digital resource project was accessibility, design, and circulation. Circulation is present in my project through forums. This is a way that readers of my website can have a platform available to debateContinue reading “Blog #7”

Before this assignment, when I thought about remixes I only thought about it in a musically sense. Artists today are constantly taking songs from other current artists or artists from years past and putting their own twist on it. After reading Dustin Edwards’s article, “Framing Remix Rhetorically” I can know identify remix as a rhetoricalContinue reading “Blog #6”

In class, we have talked much about usability and accessibiity when addressing certain digitial texts. “The Center of Universal Design”, given to us by the NC State, basically explains to readers what universal design is and what principles derive from the meaning. Universal Design is described as the following, “The design of products and environmentsContinue reading “Blog #5- Usability and Accessiblity”

“Memes are always out of context, a snapshot of a moment in time designed to be remixed and reappropriated and mutated by participants in internet culture around the globe. That gets messy when people start putting the meme back into context, by, say, reenacting it in the same location.” – Emma Grey Ellis Emma GreyContinue reading “Blog #4”

“Thus we see that for Swales, the concept of “discourse commu- nity” is useful to explain how a social group employs discourse to coordinate complex activities, to work together on very large, long-term projects.” -Patricia Bizzel Bizzel backs up this statement with Swales’ six criteria that makes a discourse community. The first 3 mentions that they must share a common goal within the community, there mustContinue reading “Blog #3- Discourse Community and Rhetoric”

Through describing the rhetorical functions of interface design—particularly MySpace and Facebook—this paper argues that, in a Web 2.0 world, composition teachers need to engage, along with our students, the work of design. – Kristin Arola The quote above is from Kristin L. Arola’s “The Design of Web 2.0: The Rise of the Template, The FallContinue reading “Blog #2- Visual Rhetoric + Design”

For my first blog I’d like readers to get a basic understanding of my background both as a person and as a writer. I’m from Laplata, MD. I’m a senior here at Salisbury University and will be graduating in may. My major is Interdisciplinary studies with a minor in Information Systems. I was also aContinue reading “Introduction”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”