Five Major Concepts

The five major concepts of this class are circulation, composition, analysis, assessment and editing texts. Throughout the class, we've been reading different perspectives of writing practices through different forms of media and learning how it affects the audience and the different exigences they demonstrate. In this class, we have learned and created our own texts using digital, print and networked spaces. With all of these methods of creating text, we recognized the difference in circulation between all forms of writing mediums and how the message of the text can affect the type of circulation needed to get the message spread out. By composing our own texts, ourselves and with our groups, we have gained the concepts of using different forms of media to efficiently support our exigence according to our texts and incorporating them together to represent a bigger picture of our main goal. Our class readings also demonstrated the different ways in composing texts and how it can benefit from it's own ay. For instance, we read about composition in digital forms (emails, blogs, social media, etc.) and in print. We learned how technology has changed the way we write and read texts and the message that can be interpreted from the texts is also affected by the media it is written in. In addition to reading these different texts, we also analyzed the readings on our own and as a class to discuss how these different theories affect the way the text is being read and reflect on the author's theories. By analyzing the texts, it helped us grow in terms of creating texts that can be supported by evidence and have a strong exigence. We learned where to compose the text, how to write it and what kind of audience was best suited for our message. Throughout all these readings, we analyzed a great amount of different authors and theories to get a better understanding of the different ways that writing can be produced and spread through a greater audience. Without analysis, we wouldn't know the point of the writing and why the author wrote the way he or she did. The other concept we learned was assessment, which is similar to analysis but in this case, it was more of when we had to assess our own texts and critique our peers texts. This concept benefitted us because we got to read our own work from our own point of view, which can be great because we get to hear own our voice in our writing and see our flaws as well. By reading our peers work, we helped them improve their texts as well as learn from their strengths. The final and most important concept in this class would have to be editing. Editing is one of the major components of this major (EDITING, writing and media) and in this class (WEPO) and a major part of this class has been to edit our work and our texts to create a final project. Without editing, we would never learn from our mistakes and never produce the best work we possibly can.