Good Question

When I first read this journal's question, I have to admit that I was a little confused. Not because I didn't understand the meaning of the question, but because this journal was different from the one's that we've done before. In the previous responses, Joe asked us about particular concepts in readings we had done that week. For those responses, we needed to essentially read and remix the assigned article that week. However, this response required the exact opposite - it asked us a question that we couldn't find the answer for in an already published text. And scrolling through the responses, it seems that everyone has a different answer entirely.
In my opinion, the five core concepts of this class are composition, design, circulation, mobility, and assessment. Because this class is called "Editing & Media for Print & Online," I think Joe structured the class around the actual process of composing discourse in the 21st century. Composition comes first in the process, and I particularly enjoyed how Joe incorporated 'remix' and 'assemblage' into this section. By doing this, we were introduced to new and more effective methods of composition. Design is next - when even mentioning composition in today's society, a good rhetor must have a well-designed text to even be noticed. Circulation is another concept that's absolutely crucial for the class. By requiring us to read Spreadable Media, Joe reinforced the concept of creating the type of discourse that's most likely to rapidly circulate. Mobility is a concept that I think would have been recently added to the curriculum of this course, because of its more recent rise to importance. Still, in today's world, we must talk about the concept of mobility in discourse if we're learning to compose. The last concept is assessment. I thought it was a very good addition to introduce modern (and even new) ways of assessment, because sometimes people forget that editing and assessing their work may be the most important part of the process.
Overall, the explanation of the entire writing process in this class has been one of the best out of all the english classes I've taken. Personally, I feel like many writing professors at FSU still have an old-school look on the process, so it was very refreshing to see it taught this way.