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Starting off this blog post, I am going to start off with the definition of remix because this all is about remix! As seen in the videos, remix is defined as; to combine or exit existing materials to produce something new. I think this definition explains everything. All our lives we have grown up listeningContinue reading “Cassie Lagner- Everything is a Remix”

Looking at my options for Project 3. I liked the example in the video that Tiffany provided us with using a selfie and then making the changes she feels fits her rhetorical approach on the picture. I like that idea so I think that I am going to start out with a selfie of myselfContinue reading “Cassie Lagner- Project 3”

After watching the video and reading the guidelines on project 3, I am interested. I like the sound of this project because it sounds fun and open ended, meaning you can basically do whatever you want. I like this because it is easier to create something about yourself than to do a research project inContinue reading “Cassie Lagner- Project 3 and Shipka”

From completing project 2 I feel like a learned a lot. First I learned what a white paper even was. Which was interesting and challenging at the same time. I thought it was interesting because I had never seen a white paper before or I’ve seen one just did not know it was called that.Continue reading “Cassie Lagner- Project 2 reflection”

The person that is talking in this article is the author Robert R. Johnson. Robert R. Johnson is a professor of rhetoric, composition, and technical communication at the Michigan Technological University. I feel the primary audience of this book is anyone who is into scientific books and interested in the atomic bomb and stories behindContinue reading “Cassie Lagner- “Romancing the Atom””

While researching I discovered important things about a white paper and my topic that is important. The topics white papers usually discuss is business and politics. They someone discuss professions in the medical field. The people who usually write them are people looking for a specific topic and comparing two things. For example comparing theContinue reading “Cassie Lagner- Researching Project 2”

The author that wrote this piece was Jason Palmeri. Jason Palmeri is an associate professor of English at Miami University (Ohio). He researched and taught the histories of composition, rhetoric, english education and many more. He likes to revisit many older composition writings as shown in the reading with all the dates. I feel hisContinue reading “Cassie Lagner- “When Discourses Collide””

When I hear the word research, honestly I do not get a happy feeling. I dislike research paper strongly. I do not know if I am just not good at them or the thought of writing that much freaks me out but I am not a fan. But when people do research usually it isContinue reading “Cassie Lagner- Research”

From doing project 1 I learned many things not only about myself but about the rhetorical ecology I was studying. What I learned about myself was that I do not write well when I am not given a clear set of directions in the writing process. I also learned I love workshops in class becauseContinue reading “Cassie Lagner- project 1 reflection”

I thought the first reading by Wardle “You Can Learn to Write In General” was easy in the sense that it was not dense. But the second reading by Miller, I felt was very dense and hard to follow. The person talking in the first reading was Elizabeth Wardle. Wardle is Howe Professor and aContinue reading “Cassie Lagner- Miller and Wardle”