Today in class we talked about the six characteristics of digital discourse communities. I think I understood the concept. I’ve been thinking about this concept in my own writing for work, because my bosses and I have had to develop our own specialized lexicon to describe people, events, and different things that we do. This…
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Reflection 1/30
One thing that confused me from class today when we broke things down into lists such as the Five Cannons and the Four Interactive elements. While I understood each of them and took notes on them, I guess I felt a little lost about how they fit into the wider context of digital writing, but…
Digital Literacy Narrative
When I started working for Empowering Youth 2 Serve (EY2S), my goal was to write effectively, crafting a narrative that would share the mission and impact of this nonprofit. Mainly I conceived of my role centering around conceptualizing and disseminating blog posts, interviews, and document writing. However, in the hiring process, my role shifted to…
Reflection 1/23/2020
What we talked about today that is relevant to my technology use is the gigi-maping, where we talked about the recursive nature of projects, and how we can visually reflect that in a map. For me as a writer, both for school and professionally, I have a lot of need for revision, and so thinking…
Two Digital Literacy Narratives Week 2 HMWK
1) http://www.thedaln.org/#/detail/faaf85fe-1abf-4535-aa33-239ffcf2a488 In this digital literacy post, Sara Hughes shared how she lost weight and increased her race times by using different apps and technology. The first app that she started using was My Fitness Pal, which kept track of her weight; this enabled Sara to lose 40 pounds and run her first half marathon….