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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Multimodal Design
The gestural mode can be useful to point out important highlights or emotional importance within the topic at hand.
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Words Are Not the Only Important Element of the Page
After reading articles from Gagich and Klein & Shackelford, I have discovered that writing is far more than just words on a page.
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Revising and Its Relationship to the Writing Process
Revising is a practice all good writers implement and are intimately familiar with. I can attest to my familiarity…
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Essays: the professional journals
Don’t know when to use images in your papers? Think of it like a more professional version of a personal journal.
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Failure is not Awesome, Failure is Acceptance.
A life without failure is a fallacy, a ruse. Those who avoid failure are already in the mist of it. Yes, failure is a lesson, but it is still defeat.
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The Art of Failing Right
Failure is not the enemy. What is the enemy are the ways a person can regard their failings as permanent or a lesson to learn.
Categories
- About the Class (3)
- Overview, Wk 1: Why Study Writing? (84)
- Topic 1: Literacy (171)
- Topic 2: Discourse Communities (216)
- Wk 4: Concept of Discourse Community (59)
- 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)
- Topic 5: Professionalism (161)
- Wk 13: Professional Writers (82)
- Wk 14: Employment (79)
- Uncategorized (51)
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