“Composing for Recomposition: Rhetorical Velocity and Delivery” by Jim Ridolfo and Dànielle Nicole DeVosstells, tells how a lot of the work and texts by writers are composed with future third-party revisions, restructurings and/or rewritings in mind. These composers thought about the future, and its ever-changing and evolving audience and rhetorical practices. They thought of society, and how it’s constantly changing the way media and information is ingested in people’s lives, figuring out new ways to catch the consumer’s attention. Recomposition doesn’t only restructure the media, but it broadens the networks they are posted to. Instead of strictly speeches and plays, now we have text, and video and film. Who is to say what type of media and work will be what we use a hundred years from now.
Writers carry a regard for the future, considering the lifespan of their work. Many want their work to outlast them. And, although it is a thoughtful sentiment to think scholars wrote for the future generation to “plagiarize.” Of course Ridolfo and DeVosstells call it “strategic recomposition, but it just means keeping up with the changing media. Writers and composers of today, are writing and composing with the notion their work will be restructured to fit a different mold, right. But, is this for the benefit of the reader, or the writer? These writers publish with the intention of recomposition. They want to spread of their work across various media types and platforms, which, ultimately benefits the reader. There is no loss when it comes to changing medias.
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