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For my third major project of my writing class, I am going to compose a blog post and infographic about why school funding is a major issue. I decided to choose this topic because I am going to be a teacher, and this is a topic I feel strongly about. I feel that it isContinue reading “Response #9”

For my remix project, I am remixing Frozen into a horror movie trailer. I had completed a draft of the trailer and after some feedback, there is definitely some changes I will be making. For example, I am going to lower the volume of the music during the trailer because at some points, it isContinue reading “Response #8”

For my remix project, I am planning to remix the movie, Frozen, into a horror movie trailer. I like to watch horror movies, but I definitely do not watch them as much as a person who watches them all the time and is their favorite movie genre. In order to appeal to the audience ofContinue reading “Response #7”

During our class period today, everyone brought in a bunch of random items that we were able to dissemble and turn into something else. This is called remixing. For this activity, two girls and I created a sort of diorama out of some of the things people brought in. We created a river, canoe, bridge,Continue reading “Response #6”

For all of my compositions, the process creating them has been similar, but different. I feel like this is because all of my compositions are different modes. I start out by brainstorming what exactly I want to compose, compose it, and then edit it. These are the basic steps I perform when composing each ofContinue reading “Response #5”

This week’s readings were about gesture and spatial writing techniques. In the articles, it talks about why these types of writing are important to use and what they can be used for. Gesture is important when communicating because it conveys emphasis and emotion. Spatial techniques are important because they can convey the most important aspectsContinue reading “Response #4”

For this week, I read the article, “Sonic Colonizations, Sound Coalitions: Analyzing the Aural Landscape of Standing Rock’s No-DAPL Movement” by Rachel Presley and Jason Crane. I found this article really interesting and the reason I chose to read it was because it had to do with the Dakota Pipeline, which was a huge thingContinue reading “Response #3”

This week’s readings were all about the visual rhetoric style of writing. I thought that the two articles that I read were very interesting and made some great points about authors and how they use visuals to portray a certain meaning. One thing that is super important about visuals is that people like when theContinue reading “Response #2”

Before coming to my writing class, I don’t think I had ever heard the word ‘multimodal’. The readings from week 1 were interesting to me because while I knew there were different ways to write things and get an overall message across to a reader, but I have never really thought too deeply about theContinue reading “Response #1”