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The primary thesis of this series is that people do not just come up with outstanding ideas from thin air and become a mass hit. Writers, artists, inventors, and pretty much everyone comes up with “unique” ideas based off of something they’ve seen, heard, or done. Like it was said in the series, everything isContinue reading “Remixing”

After thinking long and hard about what I want to do for project three, I think I have figured out a way to truly display my rhetorical purpose. I am not the most artsy person and am not the most creative, so I thought I would use typography as my main visual design. I thinkContinue reading “Project 3 Ideas”

After reading project 3, I think the idea of creating a self portrait reflecting our personality can be very interesting and fun. I think it can be fun being creative and thinking of ways to change an image of ourselves that depicts who we are as a person, and our rhetorical purpose, whether that meansContinue reading “Project 3 and Shipka”

By doing project two, I learned many key ideas and tools in order to research properly, and exactly what a white paper is, along with its purpose. I learned that a white paper is usually created by a business organization or the government, and its purpose is to inform readers about a subject, propose aContinue reading “Project 2 Reflection”

A white paper is a document that supports a side or idea. It is commonly used as official government reports, but many corporations use it also. The main purpose is for the audience of the paper to understand and believe that a specific solution is the best way to go about a problem, by proposingContinue reading “Project 2 Research”

The speaker of this text is Jason Palmeri. He graduated from Ohio State University in 2003, and is a current doctoral student in English. He focuses on the history of composition, rhetoric and English composition, and digital humanities. The audience of this text is students in rhretoric along with Palmeri’s peers in the field ofContinue reading “When Discourses Collide: Jason Palmeri”

Research is the process of exploring new information about a topic. It is asking question and finding out about it from all kinds of sources and perspectives. Wierszewski makes a clear statement on her belief that research is not meant to prove an already formed opinion. Research is a process of discovery. Often times studentsContinue reading “Research Starts with a Thesis Statement”

You Can Learn to Write in General (Wardle) The author of this text is Elizabeth Wardle. She is a Howe Professor of English and Director of the Roger and Joyce Howe Center for Writing Excellence at the University of Miami, Ohio. She gives many talks about writing and writing effectively and has directed the writingContinue reading “Miller & Wardle”

From doing this assignment, I learned that simple yet careful steps are required to create a well made product. Some steps are easier than others, but once you get passed the first few, it gets easier from there. For example, the first draft of the mind map was very confusing. I felt like didn’t knowContinue reading “Project 1 Reflection”

My revision process for project one definitely benefitted from the peer workshop we did in class and the visual rhetoric and basic design principles lesson. Before these classes, I didn’t have a good understanding of what the project really was and what it was trying to accomplish, but then I realized its all subjective andContinue reading “Project 1 Revision”