Our Class Blog
Come along as we explore the academic and professional sides of writing. New posts arrive each week throughout the semester.
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The Aesthetic in Writing
How information is presented on an essay can have just as much of – or greater – impact on writing than the information in it.
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Social Media and Multitasking
The use of social media can be a tool to improve a student’s writing or an impediment on the overall quality of their writing.
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Multimodal Text: Many Pathways to True Expression
My original mode of communication was a bit limiting, I began to brainstorm what other forms of communication and its medium I could venture into.
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Multitasking Ourselves into Brain Rot
At any given moment, I could be immersed in one task and be disrupted into handling another. My brain just always felt on the fritz.
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Tools & Productivity
We are also in a world now with AI, which can make it seem like a lot of things are real but aren’t real. Which also can give us false information.
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The Effects Within Document Design
The Effects within Document Design explores the importance of multimodal composition in education and communication.
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- Overview, Wk 1: Why Study Writing? (84)
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- Wk 5: Authority (73)
- Wk 6: Identity (66)
- Topic 3: Process (316)
- Wk 10: Collaboration and Failure (73)
- Wk 7: Process Metaphors (81)
- Wk 8: First Drafts (80)
- Wk 9: Revising (78)
- Topic 4: Technology (168)
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- Wk 14: Employment (79)
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