“We have committed to a theory of communication that is both/and: print and digital” (Yancey 307)

Again, the readings do not construct binaries. It is not print or digital but both.

Some principle points:

• Design
• Public practices - outside of class, how is technology, visuality used
• The virtual
• Inventing new practices - making hybrids
• Not depending solely on analysis
• Narrative/diegesis
• Multiliteracies
• Remake/remix/remediate
• The duscursive flaneur
• Imagination
• Research - notice that all four essays have research projects at their core

“Note that no one is making anyone do any of this writing” (Yancey 298)

What kinds of writing are done without us making people do them (see also George)?

What kind of role might mystory play?

• Function as a virtual urbanism
• Use visuality
• Work with pattern formation
• Tap into on line logics Yancey speaks about
• Work from exigence (what do four areas of interest/life show me that I don’t know)
• Merge personal with areas of interest
• Teach principles of research, pattern formation, juxtaposition - all writing concerns
• Not function as genre for genre’s sake (argument just to make arguments/compare contrast just to compare contrast)
• Work with narrative
• Instead, promotes discovery and exploration as goal. Insight into a given problem/condition.
• Teach method: CATTt (contrast, analogy, target, theory, tail)

Practice:

• Step 1. Pick Entertainment. Research. Find 4-5 main points
• Step 2: Personal. Locate personal anecdote. Flesh out. Expand.
• Step 3. Discipline. Research. Find 4-5 main points
• Step 4: What is the pattern?

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Yancey:
297 now is the moment

What, indeed, is our moment?

298 no one is making people do all the online writing they do
299 writing as interfacing
300 (echo of 298) the way a reading public was created in 19th century – outside of school
305 screen is the language of the vernacular
306 composition as gateway, not just gate keeping
307 given digital reality, what is the new curricular home for composition?
310-11 extending circulation away from student-teacher relations, to something more social
314 remediation as circulation
318 change affects literacy, and thus meaning

sirc
12 virtual academic vs virtual urbanism
13ghost face killah lyrics as a collection of events/moments
14 comp doesn’t care about such genres
16 pedagogy takes a backseat to innovation
17 comp should allow for ambient unities

overall – the temporal juxtapositions . Urbanism as specific space. How do you teach the virtual urbanism? The diegesis Sirc generates at end (like Ulmer)?

think here: countless types of composing on the Web: mash ups, parodies, lists, linked writing, etc. People WANTING to write and compose. How does education deal with this, how can it?

NOTE both Ulmer and Sirc IMAGINE or VISUALIZE imaginative spaces for writing (not syllogistic spaces or spaces that prove something)

Ulmer
Remake – asks same question as original (first page)
Chorography
Movie as interface for digital (not book)
Heuretic – invention
254 topos vs chora

255 tuning - getting areas of study in tune (popcycle)

255 diegesis - imaginary spaces
256 through attunement = four places – the uncanny
257 level of information/level of insight

256- Gainesville (virtual urban)

259 purpose - evoking mood/locating uncanny/pattern of repetitions

260 the role of mapping our positions (Benjamin) and to fine tune those positions into insight (rhetoric at the spaces of encounter – chora, moving spaces, as opposed to topos, fixed)

261 work with the details to create THE FIGURE
261 1953 SAME DATE IN SIRC
263 unfinished songs – diegesis – moment of speculation
264 occurs at place of accident (Carmen Miranda) – the juxtaposition
the what if moment of writing (could…)

I was unable to find…
265 this the following of a thread (not development of argument)
how does this become a method for research?
266 by switching agency from active to middle voice (Electracy) active enforces literacy’s dependence on selfhood (authorial presence)
middle voice works by pattern and repetition – conductivity (electronic)
269 work is the assembling (writing the mystory) of message, not in the sent message

Mystory- method:
CATTt = compare/analogy/theory/target/tale

Merger = the rhetoric and practice

George
History of visual –
13 pictorial turn
14 visual literacy - where is there not a visual literacy?
16 TV (to which we add film, media in general, the Web, ads, pictures we engage with..)
18 development of multimodal designs
composition as design (UNPACK)
- what writing is not designed? Is there one?
- We have seen design in comp as outline
- Differences here?
21 approach to advertising
22 break down these questions she asks
24 film and writing as equal partners
26 this interest in design will not be easy – it will make our work more difficult

Take that final question as challenge. The desire or lack of desire to make our work more difficult – what do we do when we say “ok”?

29 visual argument