Kathleen Yancey’s “Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key”
With the rise in literacy since the formation of universal education, more people then ever are reading and writing. This reading and writing is not always directly linked to the classroom either: emails, novels, blog, and more are written and read by individuals in their own free time and of their own accord. Yancey highlights…
Multiliteracies Terms
Visual Literacy The ability to deconstruct and interoperate meaning from visual works such as pictures and movies much the same way one might deconstruct and interoperate literature. George explains how understanding visual media is already an important skill through actions such as interpreting graphs and other such representations of numerical data. With digital media’s incorporation…
Diana George’s “From Analysis to Design”
Diana George’s Article “From Analysis to Design” discusses the continued development of digital rhetoric as a academic study, looking into the evolution of printed to digital media. One of George’s main areas of interest is the ease to which every day individuals have access to media design and publishing tools. Now that the spread of…
Multiliteracies
Traditionally, literacy refers to the act of reading and comprehending a piece of text, however in our ever growing digital world, literacy can refer to a structural analysis of any piece of media: books, movies, video games, advertisements, and more. While some traditional academics may scoff at the idea that a T.V. show has as…
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