Journal 3-JLS

I believe my artifacts help to show that rhetoric doesn't have an age limit. Two of my artifacts are specifically marketed towards children (book & candy) while the third is marketed towards adults that played/watched the original version in their youth. Circulation is most important because it is the process by which “encounters and actions” (Edbauer) happen and rhetoric is spread. Without the interaction of people, be it directly or through a type of ‘text’, how would we even be able to identify rhetoric? Design shapes the entire framework of an artifact. I dislike saying ‘text’ in this sense (although it seems that the author does) because I feel the idea of design goes further than text although that itself is an intricate decision process. The difference between the serifs & sans serifs alone is enough to make my brain go into overload! Through design, we are able to determine if it is meant to be academic, positive, negative, biased or not, emotional, family oriented, and many more styles/genres. Design can transport you to the last, or propel you into the future. Design is intricate and necessary to not just art, but literature as well. The article on material affordances is the best thing I have read in years. I feel not so alone in my need for actual paper documents, both when I was in the workplace, and now in college. Adjusting to a computerized world of reading and note-taking I have felt a little left behind in my need to do it all with pen and paper. There is one line in this article that stuck with me, “The mark of the contemporary office is not the file. It's the pile.” (Gladwell, p.7) The simplicity of paper. A few key terms that stuck out to me were: visibility, control, recollection, flexibility and , collaborative. I think that while technological advances are great, and items such as the Google Drive make it easier and more possible to share and collaborate, it doesn't quite reach the efficiency of being able to spread out each sheet of paper to take notes on and share them.