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Looking back on my Advanced Composition course, I can see how each reading slowly changed the way I understand writing. We started with Gregory Ulmer, who introduced electracy as the digital age’s version of literacy. That idea alone made me see how much the online world shapes how we communicate. Then we read Marshall McLuhan,
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This space feels like what Jody Shipka might call a living composition, where words breathe through the quiet magic of their surroundings. The chalkboard’s message, glowing softly beneath its carved wooden frame, is more than text; it is an incantation. Around it, the crystals, books, and small guardians of myth form a chorus of meaning,
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When I think about writing, I usually picture a screen. The blinking cursor, quiet room, the soft hum of a laptop. But Jody Shipka’s Toward a Composition Made Whole reminded me that composing doesn’t have to live inside a document. It can be the sound of scissors cutting paper, the texture of a pen dragging
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Richard Lanham’s Style: An Anti-Textbook argues that writing is never just about what we say. It is about how we choose to say it. The word “style” doesn’t mean decoration. It means self-preservation. Every writer, whether they admit it or not, hides behind the rhythm of their sentences, the patterns of their punctuation, the voice
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When thinking about Justin Hodgson’s ideas about the post-digital world, my mind immediately goes to The 1975. Digital tech is not separate from daily life anymore. It surrounds us all the time, and we usually only notice it when it glitches or becomes overwhelming. McLuhan’s “the medium is the message” and Ulmer’s idea of electracy
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I’ve been reading Justin Hodgson’s Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic, and it really made me think about how much digital life has blended into everything we do. Marshall McLuhan once said the medium is the message, and Gregory Ulmer emphasized the creative side of digital media. Hodgson picks up where they left off, but
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While McLuhan and Ulmer never met in the physical sense, if you read them together it feels like they’re talking across time. Back in the 60s, McLuhan said, “the medium is the massage.” Years later Ulmer came along with his own idea, electracy, which is basically literacy for the digital age. Put those ideas next
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McLuhan’s take on media, now playing out on social feeds. We live in a world where oversharing is the norm and privacy feels rare. Decades ago, Marshall McLuhan wrote, “Too many people know too much about each other. Our new environment compels commitment and participation.” He was talking about television, but it could just as
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