Category: English 350: Visible Rhetoric
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Coming down the home stretch …
Work on my portfolio proposal is going very slowly, so I’ve been concentrating on a related paper for another class. I decided to apply to present that paper at the New Directions Conference next year, so I worked up an abstract to submit. I’m really hoping that having that abstract…
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This text is within at least three frames …
Framing is really all about creating context, and I enjoyed the parts in Graphic Design that pointed out how often we use those contexts every day without even realizing it. One piece of example work, in fact, was made up entirely of the frames we constantly use on computer screens…
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Choices I can’t choose
I’m really struggling with my final project for this class. (For anyone reading who’s not in the know, I’m writing a proposal for my master’s portfolio.) I’ve always suffered from a general lack of direction in terms of career. I never wanted to pick an undergraduate major, and I still…
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Globalization and freedom
In my opinion, Chapter 9 in Practices of Looking encompassed way too much material. There’s so much to talk about, and just not enough time to do it in the space of a single chapter. I’d first like to address the interaction of the terms the authors first introduce: globalization,…
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A Return to Basics
The thing I most like about graphic design – besides the fact that it’s just cool – is that it’s really all about mastery of the basics. Lupton and Phillips seem to note this even with the title of their text: “Graphic Design: The New Basics.” The sections on hierarchy,…
Erin Anne Clark 
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