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Block 1: Picture of crayon writing 

Block 2: Screencast of typewriting

Block 3: Video of remediation 

• All of these examples are of the same thing; quote/poem from Sylvia Plath
  • One of these, or something else
    • “Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.”
      ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    • “I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is.”
      ― Sylvia Plath
    • “I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.”
      ― Sylvia Plath

Block 4: Explanation 

Writing is ever changing, ever evolving. It can be from handwritten, typed, and something else completely. Either physical/tangible to digital/on-screen. Writing is nonverbal. Something that is not spoken. Yet the words before they were spoken could be considered writing. If they were written down beforehand. 

Block 5: Pinker

A writer of classic prose must stimulate two experiences: showing the reader something in the world, and engaging her in conversation. The nature of each experience shapes the way that classic prose is written. The metaphor of showing implies that there is something to see. The things in the world the writer is pointing to, then, are concrete: people (or other animate beings) who move around in the world and interact with objects. The metaphor of conversation implies that the reader is cooperative. The writer can count on her to read between the lines, catch his drift, connect the dots, without his having to spell out every step in his train of thought. (Pinker 29)

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Block 6: John Mcwhorter

“One of hardest notions for a human being to shake is that a language is something that is, when it is actually something always becoming. They tell you a word is a thing, when it’s actually something going on” (Mcwhorter 3).

“Language changes because its very structure makes transformation inevitable” (3).

“Permanent aspects of human anatomy and cognition are why language is as changeable as clouds are” (4).

“The way we are taught to process language is as antique as our ancestors’ sense of how nature worked” (8).

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George Sirc’s Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding he Teaching of Composition is about composition, technology, and a box.

According to Sirc, “The means of media are not as important to me as the expressive or conceptual uses afforded by them” (113). His views on technology matches to that of Duchamp’s. The technology is just a tool. The overall product is what is important.

Technology is always evolving and improving. One has to be up to date in order to use it to its full potential. Teaching changes so that it could keep up with technology. Teaching what is new helps people not be at a disadvantage with their competition.

The idea of a box is important to Sirc. “Text as box = author as collector” (Sirc 117). The box could be physical or metaphorical. Anything is up for grabs to use. What the person makes out of other materials is a new creation. Meaning something new could come from something old.

The box makes us realize what is actually needed. There are so much that can be done and the box simplifies it, at least to a degree. “The grammar of the box can keep us grounded in the basic image, in things we really care about” (Sirc 119). If one is able to focus and pinpoint what is actually needed, it is easier to make what they were planning to make in the first place.