ENGL307: Digital Writing

In Chapter one of the text, the topic of raster versus vector images is touched upon. I chose this website because it dives a little further into the topic of which type of image you should use. This site is helpful because it is very clear that you should use vector images for logos and illustrations and raster images should be used for digital graphics and digital photography. Knowing when to use each type of imaging is critical when beginning a project.

A lengthy discussion of new media, how it's defined, and its implications.

Chapter 1 of Design Fundamentals is all about trying to define new media. This site's main function is to help people have a better understanding concerning communications throughout the internet. New media is constantly being redefined because technology and forms of communication through technology are constantly evolving and developing. This site helped me not only understand better what is considered to be new media today, but can help me in the future as new media evolves and the definition changes.

This video consisted of many stats about how quickly new media has been evolving and expanding. I love this statistics format because it provides amazing facts that don't take much time for me to read and comprehend. This helped me to better understand where technology was, is, and where it's going. This also helped me understand some more facts about new media while keeping my full attention

This is a very descriptive outline of the history of rhetoric and how it has evolved from the classical period to modern day.

This video defines Rhetoric loosely as the art of persuasion. However, it dives much deeper into the history and breaks down exactly what makes up rhetoric and what makes a good rhetorician.

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

An article about finding your audience. Full of personal accounts to help apply what is learned to our writing.

A neat little video that connects persuasive writing to the many advertisements all around the world today and the key tips to be successful in persuading an audience. The audience of this video is evidently college students just like us.

This is a website that has been created to intentionally look like the worst website ever. I think a lot of lessons can be taken from this when it comes to web design. It's also pretty hilarious.

This video showed some very common mistakes that are made by web designers.

This short presentation gave a concise, real world definition and application of rhetoric. The examples in this video were especially effective.

Here you will find what I hope to take in and benefit from while in ENG 307. I am looking forward to learning more.

This is a very basic, step by step tutorial on audacity. It gives a begginer a great introduction to audacity.

This video gives a great discription of how to create a storyboard. I thought the man in the video did a great job of keeping my attention throughout the video.

This gives a brief and detailed idea of the rhetorical canons and ways to create your speech.

This funny video describes "new media" as read in the book readings for the week. It gives examples of new media and defines new media. It is a funny video that keeps your interest to better understand "new media".

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