Journal #5

I define composing very similarly to how I would define creating, they feel very synonymous to me, and that is the act of bringing something into being. I would differentiate the act of writing from the act of composing by classifying writing to being compositional act specifically to do with words on a page (this page my be digital or physical). Both of these ideas allow you to being an idea into reality, but writing allows you to do it in a format with words that is readable.
I think my previous experiences with writing, specifically those to do with my History of Text Technologies class that I am also taking this semester, have impacted my current understanding of the term because I have been forced to think of text outside of what I would normally classify a text as, such as pictographic images, and I think this has allowed me to draw a difference between writing and composing. Composing seems necessary to the act of writing, but no vice versa, you may compose with no writing involved in the form of images or video. Writing has to do specifically with composing words into a meaning. In the past I have composed pictures, paintings, and sculptures and I've composed stories, poems, and essays, but I have never written a picture, painting or sculpture.
The six key terms that come to mind when I am writing would have to be: creativity, structure, format, design, genre, and message. Creativity because I feel that it is always necessary when creating new compositions in all realms of its process. Structure and format because I feel like when you write or compose the structure and format are important to know because may effect the way that you write because one writes differently when writing in the structure of a novel than they may when they are writing in the format of a newspaper article. This same sort of mentality may go along with design and genre, the way you write changes for the design to which you are writing and writing styles change when you are writing or composing for a specific genre. I think that message is a key term because to me there needs to be some sort of message to be found in a written work or composition, this message doesn't have some great meaning to it, but it still needs to be found.