ENGL307: Digital Writing

A quiz to find what fond best represents you

A webpage that shows the different types of fonts and what each one of them says about you

" who you are and the way you and others think about yourself."

Brief discussion of emphasis and why it's important in scrapbooking, followed by some examples of different emphasis techniques.

Popplet is the best app for sharing visual ideas. ENG307 Outcomes

I know this is a silly video, but it gave me a catchy way of remembering the differences between the rhetorical terms.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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 clip from a movie I watched in a debate class once. It's full of rhetorical scenarios as the protagonists is a promoter of tobacco products, and I thought it was a good example of rhetoric.

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.

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.

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 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.