On your Take 20 video response video, I'm thoroughly impressed. The medium works well. Of course, if you wanted to, you could import sections of the actual video as "direct quotes," in a way, directly through AVS software as opposed to copying, into your video. Good screen captures. We used to do this when commenting on video projects in essays. Interesting that you point out that your video is an essay. It is, really. It's a visual essay with an intro, middle, and end, and as you point out, directly, to make sure no one misses it, a thesis. When you talk about Miller the desks remind me of the Nathan book cover.
In the first part of your essay you relate more about what composition is, in your view, rather than in the views of the Take 20 authors. You provide a history of composition, though, that implies concepts covered by the teachers in Take 20. Good, clear articulation. I especially agree with the idea that good writing is good thinking. Interesting how you integrate correctness and talk about "obsessions" of marking errors. Ah, Strunk and White. You incorporate ideas about revision well. Good movement from product to process, and from process to multiple processes. Good outline of main points which are covered by Take 20 authors. Indeed, new media itself changes our understanding of what should be incorporated or ways in which we define writing itself. Good use of Manovich. Interesting pictures of second life, and the metaphors of desktops and workspaces (Johndan), and hyperreality (Baudrillard) and immediacy/narrative (Castells, Bolter). In many ways you have combined or applied New Media Rhetoric to Composition. Nice mixup with that Web.2.0 video, too.
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On your Take 20 video response video, I'm thoroughly impressed. The medium works well. Of course, if you wanted to, you could import sections of the actual video as "direct quotes," in a way, directly through AVS software as opposed to copying, into your video. Good screen captures. We used to do this when commenting on video projects in essays. Interesting that you point out that your video is an essay. It is, really. It's a visual essay with an intro, middle, and end, and as you point out, directly, to make sure no one misses it, a thesis. When you talk about Miller the desks remind me of the Nathan book cover.
In the first part of your essay you relate more about what composition is, in your view, rather than in the views of the Take 20 authors. You provide a history of composition, though, that implies concepts covered by the teachers in Take 20. Good, clear articulation. I especially agree with the idea that good writing is good thinking. Interesting how you integrate correctness and talk about "obsessions" of marking errors. Ah, Strunk and White. You incorporate ideas about revision well. Good movement from product to process, and from process to multiple processes. Good outline of main points which are covered by Take 20 authors. Indeed, new media itself changes our understanding of what should be incorporated or ways in which we define writing itself. Good use of Manovich. Interesting pictures of second life, and the metaphors of desktops and workspaces (Johndan), and hyperreality (Baudrillard) and immediacy/narrative (Castells, Bolter). In many ways you have combined or applied New Media Rhetoric to Composition. Nice mixup with that Web.2.0 video, too.
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