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  1. Mar 2016
    1. , Bogost discusses how most news articles discussing the 2007 merit-based green card proposal in the U.S. Congress cut and pasted examples of how the system would function from press releases. Points of Entry, on the other hand, operationalized the proposed rules, and situated them in a game framework, giving the public a place to experiment with (and develop a deeper understanding of) the way such an approach would work in practice.

      The question he raises is about capitalistic society and objects

    2. ogost re-tells two powerful stories about examples of procedural rhetoric: the first about the importance of institutional politics in education (through the Plato game Tenure) and the second about the dynamics of long-term debt (through the Nintendo game Animal Crossing)

      He talks about objects and how they can effect people. we can find these concepts in Dr. Wharton's Exposition class and the Atlanta Phoenix Project

    3. Bogost introduces this work with a short overview of the history of rhetoric, including its expansion into areas like written and visual rhetoric.

      This concept can be found by comparing our intro to rhetoric class and senior rhetoric classes

    4. Bogost’s procedural rhetoric is a theory about how and why to do operationalization, or other forms of procedural representation, rather than a project to operationalize certain elements of pre-existing rhetorical practice
  2. Feb 2016
    1. Moreover, I would like to pay homage to Aristotle for his definition of rhetoric; it serves as a foundation of my own definition of it and its purpose in the world. To me, rhetoric is the spoken, written, or digital art, which is necessary to convince another to act on a decision in order to fix or petition for or against an issue whether it is big or small. What made me formulate this definition is paying attention to everything around me and seeing the issues spreading across the world. Take the Black Lives Matter protests or the Feminist Movement, for example. If it were not for rhetoric being present in multimodal forms, the issues that have surrounded Black Americans and women for centuries would go unnoticed and unresolved. Sure there are a lot of changes that still need to be made, but I owe it to rhetoric in all forms for allowing people all over to become aware of the problems.

      I love what you said here and you can also draw attention to Occupy Wall St movement as well. You can also provide photos here as well as how these movements used rhetoric in their protest

    2. Or, the job of a good rhetor could be to just simply bring awareness to an issue that is not commonly talked about or publicized. I guess I owe this idea to the well-known Greek philosopher, Socrates. After having passed away thousands of years ago, his texts and influences on rhetoric and composition still lives on.

      I like what you said here and also you can state what makes a good orator here as well. You can also add some classical rhetoric concepts here as well

    3. Plus, as a good rhetor (in practice) it is wiser to know your audience and their needs, and to connect to them while having the end goal of moving their souls, and persuading them to act on the subject matter

      you can include some assignments here as well as key people that she introduced was to

    1. Overall your CRE was engaging and its clear that you learned something in the program. You may want elaborate more on ideas and how these classes worked together to help define your sense of rhetoric. I also would put some multimodal pieces into your CRE such as pictures, and other figures to further explain what rhetoric is

    2. Dr. Wharton introduced me to multimodal communication, and I used expository writing, Google timeline application, and virtual modeling to create a history of a late nineteenth-century brass compact unearthed during excavation for MARTA track construction.

      Introduce the title of project here and the work you did on your project. Also here you can state what multimodal communication means to you and how this project influenced you to define what rhetoric is in modern text

    3. Plato’s privileged view of rhetoric restricted self-expression to the elite Greek orators, men.

      you can take about classical rhetoric here and also elaborate on what type of society most rhetoricians lived in this time period. Also you can elaborate how women were not allowed to learn this disciple and how it effects women and yourself today

    4. The CTW assignment exploring the possible causes of Alexander the Great’s death reflected Plato’s theory that texts can indeed be misleading when the authors are long dead and conclusive evidence no longer exists, if it ever did.

      you can take a picture of the assignment or link to it here. What was the title for your CTW and why is it significant to you in your academic career

    5. I changed majors

      what major are you changing from

    1. How does censorship play a role in rhetoric. the right to these tools be taken away can cause riots or other up rising. How can censorship effect are ability as rhetoricians to demonstrate are knowledge as well as are ability to evoke emotion and etc in are audience working around censorship. will we change are tools based on these

    2. his tension leads to certain opacities or blind-spots regarding the status of media for each trajectory, which the others can supply only at the cost of their own blindness.

      Can this blindness be associated with what we allow the reader to see or to allow the reader to read between the lines. Do we give this power to the audience or do we trust the audience to understand what we are saying

    3. Using technology to express are thoughts compare to that of written text.

    4. It is noteworthy that these three major trajectories (the naturalist, the socio-historical and the object-oriented-ontological) in contemporary media studies are incommensurable, if in perhaps unexpected ways.
    5. What broadly characterises this trend is its commitment to a return to a full-blown metaphysics of ‘being,’ outside of any subjective or human ‘correlation.’
    6. ‘object oriented ontology’ (OOO), expressly named as such by Harman on the model of ‘object oriented programming’—but just as expressly without any further relation to computing than that

      human interaction vs computer interactions?

    7. Culture is redefined or re-created when formatted in web based content, because we can use various modes of rhetoric to express history

    8. history depends on human interaction, thus cause and effect

    9. hen modulated between storage and display in an endless network of protocol-based negotiation that both severs any link to the data's semantic source and creates an ever-growing excess of data weirdly related to, but ontologically distinct from, its originating data source.

      the difference between history of rhetoric using web base development

    1. Provide examples and discuss specific research methods and genres you studied—or produced--as a Rhetoric and Composition student.

      discuss rhetoric in multi modal composition methods using interviews, visual, and sound

    2. Provide examples and discuss how your reading, research, and writing are multi-modal or digital

      include sound rhetoric and visual aspects of rhetoric

    3. How has your writing changed to account for audience expectations, and how do you write for different audiences?

      yes, when writing for various audiences has enable me to become more well rounded

    4. Which specific editing and revision strategies do you regularly use as you compose texts within the major, and texts for other areas of your life (extracurricular clubs, internships, job, etc)? Where did these strategies come from (readings, assignments, peer workshops, feedback from professors)

      I usually write everything by hand first, which also can cause me to fall behind. The reason i rather edit by paper because i need to be able to see and touch my writings

    5. What are your future career plans? How did specific courses, assignments, or professors prepare you for your desired career goals

      future plans is to study public health care and communications, various courses helped me understand that communication can be everything and just not text on paper

    6. How did you use collaboration or collaborative writing within your courses in Rhetoric and Composition? What did you learn from using collaboration?

      not every one will share your ideas but don't get discourage

    7. What is your current definition of “literacy” or “literacy studies”? Which theories, figures, readings, assignments, or courses have most contributed to your understanding of it?

      literacy studies can be how we interpret situations around us. I will use theories of karl marx and kenneth burke here. Also that can be anything even a movement such as Black Live Matters

    8. How does your current definition compare and contrast to what you thought or knew about it before taking any courses in Rhetoric and Composition and/or during your first semester of courses in Rhetoric and Composition

      While exploring the major I though I would only be writing papers, however in my senior year composition and rhetoric can be anything.

    9. What is your current definition of “composition” or “composition studies”? Which theories, figures, readings, assignments, or courses have most contributed to your understanding of it?

      What does is mean to compose. Composition can mean everything such as visual,sound and gesture. The way we put things together. Composition is just not linguistics or text

    10. How does your current definition of “rhetoric”compare and contrast to what you thought or knew about rhetoric before taking any courses in Rhetoric and Composition,and/or during your first semester of courses in Rhetoric and Compositionwith your understanding in your last semeste

      I had no clue what rhetoric was, however I would score high in that category for standardized test throughout high school. I know that rhetoric is the persuasion of audience using different means such as emotions and other aspects. Rhetoric can be multi-modal. such as sound and visual besides regular linguistics

    11. What is the most significant assignment/textthat you have created as arhetoric and composition major, and why is it significant for you

      The assignment that was most relevant to me was my first paper in rhetoric and comp: that involved Karl Marx, Aristotle and Kenneth Burke. my future goals will be in public health communications working under the united nations to sustain health career facilities in developing countries. This assignment help me understand that every ones needs healthcare no matter how much currency you may or may not have

    1. he Sophists emphasized the development of “knowledge of fundamentals [that] becomes bodily rather than conscious,”
    2. These disruptions need to be powerful, bolstered by a digital presence and crafted with a rhetoric of awareness, activism, and engagement. A disruptive rhetoric must unify power and action from preexisting avenues and harness the rhetorical power of digital visibility.
    3. “what is certain is that the Internet has created a ‘call-out’ culture, in which sexism or misogyny can be ‘called out’ and challenged
    4. The tongue is a crucial organ in ancient rhetoric: it was trained, restricted, and worshiped for its essence of viable delivery.
    5. When Philomela threatened to name him for his crime, Tereus responded by cutting out her tongue—quite literally robbing Philomela of a portion of her body, the muscle essential to taking part in public discourse (Beard, 2014).
    1. "Multimedia Writing and Rhetoric enabled me to develop my writing skills while learning how to transform my writing style for different mediums.  The course allowed me to explore various forms of technology that do not restrict my prose to paper or a simple word processor."