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This website goes over ethos, pathos, and logos. It helps me understand the readings better because it gives several examples of each concept. Ethos is ethical appeal that the author uses. Pathos is when the author trying to appeal to the readers emotions. Logos is the logic portion of writing that will begin to make sense to the reader.

We read "The Influencing Machine" this week by the author, Brooke Gladstone. I found this book to be an interesting take on things and wanted to know more about the author. I bookmarked this site because it gives details as well as links to Gladstone's work.

The ultimate goal is for your visual designs to be so good that the visual design itself doesn't really call out at all.

After having read the first two chapters of the Designed Fundamentals for New Media book and the other required readings, I feel I was better equipped in regards to being able to identify the different methods of communication present, and understand why the author of the article referred to Obama's rhetoric as "predictable."

This is a video of a person talking about Michael Young who is the author of "The Rise of Meritocracy".

Host Terry Gross interviews author Linda Greenhouse about her book "Before Roe v. Wade." Among other points, Greenhouse discusses the phrase, "right to choose" which was an important choice or words for the movement.

She defines copyright and fair use laws. She says 35 years after an author open up their copyright they can retract it. Thats interesting!

Talks about the importance of one type of digital writing, weblog, and how it is being used to talk about topics among users

Really good interview on NPR. Check it out, gives insight into what Gladstone is conveying in the book. 

Some questions to think about when reading a text and trying to figure out an author's purpose in writing the text.

The OWL at Purdue, Purdue Online Writing Lab How to write email to different recipients, responding, continuing email conversation and more