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Why go multimodal?
As I sit here today and write this essay about the importance of digital writing, it seems almost silly to even question. I’m writing on a laptop, while I simultaneously research sources online only to post it online to our … Continue reading
Navigating the 21st Century: An Exploration of Self and Audience
Navigating the 21st Century: An Exploration of Self and Audience As we have learned from class in the past few weeks, we must pay attention to numerous details when writing online. To look further into these details and … Continue reading
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Web Writing and Student Engagement
Today, professors are integrating web writing into college curriculums as a means of increasing student engagement within the classroom. Twitter, and other online sources like Google Docs, Wiki’s, and blogs are some of major tools professors are using to introduce … Continue reading
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Welcome to the Digital Era
Welcome to the Digital Era The first Printing press was first form of social media. The invention of the printing press burgeoned the first forms of writings such as books and the earliest form of newspapers. Despite this advancement … Continue reading
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Tweet into Social Media
Writing is an attraction. You can’t assume that readers will be interested in what you’re going to be talking about if your lead in sentence is bland and not intriguing. Writing in the digital age is more of an art. … Continue reading
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Creating, Using, and Manipulating Digital Information
The Internet is arguably the largest single source of information ever created by humans. This incredible bank of information has grown since the rise in popularity of digital humanities and web writing, which both contribute large banks of primary and … Continue reading
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Learning Not to Hate Twitter: Does Social Media Have a Place in the Classroom?
My quest: learning how not to hate Twitter. By exploring this social site and other social media in a classroom setting, I hope to understand a working relationship (if there is one) between new media and learning. Currently, social media … Continue reading
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Don’t Beat Them. Just Join Them
Don’t Beat Them. Just Join Them One of the most important facets of writing well, is being able to write appropriately for different audiences. The best author would be equally able to write children’s books, research papers, and … Continue reading
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Technology, Twitter, and their Role in Online Writing and Identity
While researching this topic, I made a very important yet simple conclusion: technology is not bad. In fact, without technology, our world would be behind in more ways than one. Technology is responsible for spreading vast amounts of information to … Continue reading
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Drag Strips and Dry Lips
For almost all of freshman year my bike rides were limited to one direction, North. Sure there was a great mountain with quite the view, but the roads were often … Continue reading → Continue reading