Author Archives: hofferac

Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric The author is using the social media reformation of Hamilton to show the power of rhetoric in regards to their project to reshape perceptions of a city Ad hoc- created or done for a particular purpose as necessary. “‘Our sense of place…tends to remain rooted in an imaginary that describes communitiesContinue reading “2.25 Reading Response #5”

#4. Composing for Recomposition The author wants us to know that everything we read is composed in a way that allows for repurposing. This feature makes it so a text can be used in many ways while also being traced back to the source which is good for marketing rhetorical velocity: “a conscious rhetorical concernContinue reading “2.18 Reading Response #4”

#3. Composing With Rhetorical Velocity Prompt: In the chapter, the authors offer an approach–a set of guiding questions–for analyzing circulating text. Discuss their approach and how it might be applied to our rhetorical analysis. What does this approach bring to light that Wysocki’s approach does not?  The approach discussed in this reading is more focusedContinue reading “2.11 Reading Response #3”

#2. Silva Rhetoricae  The author’s main point is that rhetoric can be a difficult subject to comprehend, but it provides a lot of insight, and you can enjoy it without understanding  100% of what it’s saying.  Rhetoric is a forest, it provides valuable resources for a variety of uses, but it can be easy toContinue reading “2.04 Reading Response #2”

All Writing is Multimodal, Platforms Intervene, Keeping Up with the Algorithms When writing rhetorics we use more than one mode of communication making it multimodal, there is no such thing as monomodal, the author wants us to realize that we are seeing what an algorithm thinks we want to see, and in a way canContinue reading “1.30 Reading Response #1”