When looking across the large amount of texts we have read in class, I find that is it hard not to notice the timeline of these texts. I think it would be interesting to look at them in chronological order, because I have seen how the ideas of the newer authors shift from those before them. Bitzer had the revolutionary idea of exigence, but then later Estrem came and blew his point out of the water by stating writing is conversational. Faigly was not around during the time the term "multimodality" was coined, and instead says "multidimensional".
Another thing I learned is the importance of Multimodality. Selber and Johnson-Eilola even bring up this point when they mention remix, remediation, and assemblage. All terms I did not know before that play a significant role in finding the multimodality of texts that Shipka first introduced.
My biggest question after all this is still related to time. With all of these terms and phrases being so new, and replacing other texts, how does this effect their own life span, will all of these ideas be replaced in the near future with a whole new set of rhetorical and technological ideas to discover?
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