ENGL307: Digital Writing

This is another video describing how the internet travels. It also gives information on packaging and networks.

Examples of Rhetoric. I found this article really helpful in that it not only gave examples of rhetoric but broke down the elements of rhetoric and how it came together.

Examples of Rhetoric. I found this article really helpful in that it not only gave examples of rhetoric but broke down the elements of rhetoric and how it came together.

The New Yorker's Ezra Klein breaks down why a skillful use of rhetoric will not always help a President achieve his purpose. This goes back to the point that one's audience will have people who have differing purposes and, in many cases, it will be impossible to persuade everyone.

Three-minute video on the history of rhetoric. Nice brief-yet-informative video on the basic concepts and other nice tidbits that provides good background knowledge.

Persuasion/rhetoric. Another great real life connection to rhetoric in our daily lives. This video breaks down the top 3 aspects of rhetoric Pathos, Ethos and Logos. It explains it based on a situation that happened a few years ago when a famous world renowned violinist played for free in a subway station, with all the passersby being unaware that is would usually cost over a hundred dollars to watch him play.

Persuasion/rhetoric. Another great real life connection to rhetoric in our daily lives. This video breaks down the top 3 aspects of rhetoric Pathos, Ethos and Logos. It explains it based on a situation that happened a few years ago when a famous world renowned violinist played for free in a subway station, with all the passersby being unaware that is would usually cost over a hundred dollars to watch him play.

This article describes how to tailor specific phrase in order to persuade others to agree with your arguments.This emphasizes the understanding of pathos or audience as we learned in our readings about rhetoric

In the latest episode of his podcast, "Penn's Sunday School," Penn Jillette discusses the negative aspect of rhetoric. Beginning around minute 46 of the show, he describes the details of the article "12 Phrases Progressive Need to Ditch." In Jillette's oppinion, changing your words to placate your audience is not only manipulating, but also demeaning.

This youtube video relates to Chapter 2 which focuses on the design process and the steps involved. Although this video is slightly different from the steps stated in the textbook, it kind of goes into more detail of the steps given in the text book and gives a nice visual of the steps involved in creating a webpage and how it will look on multiple media devices.

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.

This site explains the different in the internet and the world wide web. I found this site to be very helpful to me in identifying the difference in the internet and the world wide web.

This you tube video describes the history of the internet. This video shows the interesting development of the internet over the years.

A little documentary that explains some of the things we read about in other articles but includes animations and expounds upon the history of the internet. I enjoyed the visuals with the information.

Here is another you tube video I found that gave really easy to understand information on the internet and how it works.

This article discusses in-depth detail the three pillars of persuasion ethos, logos and pathos used in Rhetoric. I found this article to be very informative and interesting.

This video is an interview describing Spychips, a book about RFID tags. This book goes into detail about RFID tags and gives a better description of what Chapter three of The Computer: A Very Short Introduction gave.

Negative Space Visuals

First music ever played by a computer

Within the video are several examples of positive space and negative space in designs, detailing how both work hand in hand in creating a dynamic aesthetic. 

Brief overview of how dial-up connections are set up. Yes, we all remember it. Nevertheless, it shows how far technology has come. 

History of smartwatches. Timeline detailing the early stages of computing in watches, and the evolution of the pieces today. 

Great piece illustrating Intel's longevity atop the food chain. Also goes into whether or not the company will be able to stay in said position.