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Braun – “Audio Ethnography: Listening to Cultures and Communities” Why are you drawn to these arguments/ideas? I was instantly drawn to Braun’s article because the theme of her course was “reading cultures and communities”. One of the aspects of sound studies I have been focusing on is the reading of sound. I do think thisContinue reading “Post 9: Composition in the Classroom”

Marbeck – “Embracing Wicked Problems: The Turn to Design in Composition Studies” Why are you drawn to these arguments/ideas? Marbeck seems to focus his argument on the idea that habits and familiarity, while a good start, should not be realized on during the design process. “Wicked problems” because there is not one solution or rightContinue reading “Post 8: Negotiating Designs and Unsolvable Wicked Problems”

Part 1: On the first page, Kress wrote something that stuck with me while I continued reading: “Multimodality can tell us what modes are used. It cannot tell us about this difference in style; it has no means to tell us what that difference might mean” (1). For example, with signs, there are always goingContinue reading “Post 7: Multimodality”

Part 1: Kress and Leeuwen’s framework intersects with the other material we’ve read this semester because it provides us with a different understanding of what many of the scholars we’ve read have touched on. By talking about modes as the material, social, and cultural resources they are, we can see how creation and interpretation canContinue reading “Post 6: Strata and Semiotics”

One of my key takeaways from Digital Griots is the failure Banks feels at not being able to properly link “black rhetorical traditions, writing, and technology” (78). I especially like that the activities outlined on pages 81-83 both begin and end with the creation of a mixed tape. This course has been designed, it seems,Continue reading “Post 5: Reflections on Digital Griots”

This post is in response to Jody Shipka’s Toward a Composition Made Whole. (I apologize for my lack of page numbers – I read this on my Kindle.) Part 1: Below is the multimodal composition I made about my Fitbit. While I do use my Fitbit to track stats, I do not allow it toContinue reading “Post 4: Made Whole”

I read Alexander and Rhodes’ Techne first, and I found it both perplexing and fascinating. Not only did it explore topics and subjects in relation to composition in a way that I probably wouldn’t have otherwise, it was also very personal. And of course, it was the perfect example of what I would consider aContinue reading “Post 3: Queering Compositions”

Like most writing processes, mine is extremely messy. I often have a hard time getting what is in my brain into a coherent enough form to write about. I make haphazard notes, write things out of order, and skip the introduction altogether. Usually, I have to verbally talk through my ideas, especially if the contentContinue reading “Post 1: Composing”