literature
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Geoffrey Sirc talks about composition like it should be a “happening,” and honestly, as a writer, that makes perfect sense to me. Writing feels better when it’s an experience instead of an assignment. It works when it’s a little messy, a little playful, and connected to whatever is going on in real life. After all,
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When Geoffrey Sirc talks about writing as a kind of visual art in English Composition as a Happening, I have to say I definitely get what he means. He’s basically saying that writing shouldn’t feel so stiff or mechanical. It can be more like painting or creating something you can feel and see, not just something
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I’m still working my way through Richard Lanham’s Style: An Anti-Textbook, but even from what I’ve read so far, it feels really different from any other textbook I’ve studied. Instead of handing out rules and “right” ways to write, Lanham treats style as something playful and rhetorical. It’s less about following steps and more about
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On a brick-lined alley, next to Daisy, a corgi with more charm than Poe’s raven, I stumbled across this sign: ‘Poe-etry in the pocket.’ It struck me that literature is never just confined to books or screens. It leaks into alleys, into conversations, into the static hum of daily life. We write, we post, we
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Ink sleeps heavy,bleeding into silence. Screens breathe fast,like blue fire on skin. Paper.Static.Fleeting. I hover between,half ghost, half spark, consumed, never whole.
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Gregory Ulmer, an American media theorist and professor emeritus at the University of Florida, defines electracy as the digital-age counterpart to literacy. He coined the term electracy in the 1990s as an analogy to literacy, and his work focuses on rhetoric, literacy, and digital culture. In other words, literacy taught us how to communicate, think,
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