BE: Composing the Digital Self

English 106 . Purdue University

Entries from January 2006

Reflecting on the Week in Writing

January 30th, 2006 · No Comments

I have just finished reading through weekend writing on the class blogs, and I’ve enjoyed the variety of ideas found among us about which we wrote: color, grammar, choices, and more.  Let me make note, however, that I have seen little or no address made of the reading missed in class discussion last Thursday.  Topics [...]

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Composing in Color

January 27th, 2006 · No Comments

We talked briefly on Thursday about the rhetorical value of color in the work of composing a message. Think of “rhetoric” as the many intentional choices of presentation (word, image, sound, and others) we make to shape a message in such a way as to get maximun “control” over the meaning it carries and [...]

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Own An iPod?

January 14th, 2006 · No Comments

We’re been thinking about ways in which the digital 21st century is writing our lives, and here’s one more: PodDating – the next generation of online dating now in video.  Now you can subscribe to feeds and sync your iPod for automatic updates on singles in your area.  
 
There are just about 300 million people in [...]

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