Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Key Term Map Desiree DeMarco


My map shows that writing is a creative or inventive process that is typically complex but not without some type of structure. All writing typically has a motive (to entertain, persuade, inform) and an audience. 

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  1. Rose mentions that scholars work with visual materials in terms of four different sites: the site of production, the site of the image itself, the site(s) of its circulation, and the site where the image encounters its spectators or users (audiencing). The map I made shows that writing is complex and has structure, which I think goes along with what Rose said. The process of writing has many different moving parts, including how it is produced and distributed but there must be some shape to that operation, otherwise it would not get done.

    Lunsford believes writing is relational and responsive and is always, in some way, part of an ongoing conversation with others. I believe that the terms I used in my map, “motive” and “audience” highlight that. I incorporated the word “motive” because I think all writing has a purpose: to communicate. Whether it be communicating an idea, a fact, or an imaginary world, words have meaning. They also have an audience to relay that message to, or in terms more suited to Lunsford, writing relates to an audience that responds in a variety of ways.

    Shipka’s text focused on “multimodality” which requires that we" attend to how multiple modes operate together in a single rhetorical act and how extended chains of modal transformations may be linked in a rhetorical trajectory.” She asserts that students should be encouraged to think outside the box and explore other rhetorical and material potentials for their work. In my map, I have the term “Inventive” in the ears of Mickey Mouse. I believe that writing needs to be innovative to be a success. Although I admit when making this map, I was thinking of writing in more of a traditional sense, I admit I could add terms such as interactive or graphic to my map to round it out.

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