Category: Wk 6: Speaking, Writing, and Literacy
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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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Technology and writing
Technology and writing will always be intertwined because the first type of technology was writing. Writing is an essential part of our daily lives.
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What a Literate Culture Lacks (According to an Oral One)
Before written language was created, information survived through oral communication only. The transition was not without criticism.
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The Cons of the Spoken, Written, and Electronic Word
I take a look at Applen’s work on the spoken word, the written word, and the electronic word and discuss everything negative about each one.
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Secondary Orality
This blog post is secondary orality Im going to be talking about what it is and how i came to learning what it is and explaining it
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Orality vs Literacy
Orality was the main way people would teach. Literacy introduced a new way for people to learn, through studying not through memorization.