Category: Unused Topics from Past Semesters
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Text: Defined
In order to define the term text, scholars often construct a framework and set parameters that assist in understanding the term.
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A Text is a Miserable Pile of Secrets.
A text isn’t just the little message you’ve been leaving on read for god knows how long. The video you sent before that counts, too.
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The words—they’re alive!
“Spoken words are alive; written words are dead.” Seeing this up on the board boggled my mind. Yes, I was mildly aware of this debate.
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Secondary orality within Old & New Media
Secondary Orality refers to how a person’s literary skills can influence how they read certain media, but how does that apply to newer media?
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Wk 6: Secondary Orality is All Around Us
Kind of knowing what is orality just doesn’t make the cut. Explore Ong, Applen, and Vila’s views on the many sides of secondary orality.
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Oral and Written Cultures
Acknowledging the differences between written and oral culture is important in order to highlight what each one does and their impact.
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Writing is a technology
In the tapestry of history, writing threads the needle of memory, stitching together the narratives that define cultures and civilizations.
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Writing is a Technology
Writing is my favorite technology. This blog goes over how it is a technology, why it is so useful, and why it is the best technology.
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Words, Writing and Speaking
A look at the liveliness of words through different methods of communication in response to Applen’s beliefs about technologies.
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Words: Written vs Spoken
With the advancement of digital technology comes questions about the field of writing. Are written and spoken words dead or alive?
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Secondary Orality is Your Orality
There are enough complicated concepts in the English language to make your head spin for days, but you’re already great at secondary orality.
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Is Writing a Technology?
A break from Eyman, oral language, and how writing as a technology changed the game for society dating back to Plato times.
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Digital Rhetoric 🤝Online Shopping
This week we take what we’ve learned from Eyman and analyze the digital rhetoric behind popular online shopping websites and how they affect consumerism.
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Human-Computer Interaction and Digital Rhetoric!
Human-Computer Interaction is not a complete physical interaction, but a cognitive interactive response that creates a physical reaction