Author Archives: charles mcghee

What I learned about the assignment was that it involves a lot of technical prowess. One of my classmates showed me how to add the rest of my pages along with my landing page. I must admit, I was worried when I only saw the landing page after publishing my entire website. When you useContinue reading “Workshop Blog 1”

From reading Michael-John Depalma and Kara Poe Alexander’s article, “A Bag Full of Snakes”, writing multimodal compositions sounds like a challenging process. Students faced challenges relating to audience, semiotic resources, and transfer. There were many more challenges relating to ethics, technology and rhetorical constraints. However, just like the article, I’m only going to focus onContinue reading “Response Blog 4”

From reading Becoming Rhetorical: Chapter 14, I learned more about visual representation. I learned about color, text size, and text alignment. Before reading this chapter, I never paid that much attention to these visual details. Now I’ll know to consider these details when completing future assignments. I’ll explain more about all the new things I’veContinue reading “Response Blog 3”

From reading Hutto’s “Ancient Egyptian Rhetoric from the Old and Middle Kingdoms”, I learned about rhetoric from an Egyptian point of view. I learned about the general rules, how women in particular used rhetoric, and how most Egyptian leaders used rhetoric. I’ve never took much thought into how rhetoric was used in ancient Egypt untilContinue reading “Response Blog 2”

From reading Becoming Rhetorical Chapter 4, I’ve learned about the significance of images. I’ve learned to consider their purpose, what’s being emphasized, and details. Images can be utilized by various outlets such as the government and magazine companies. My instructor, Kayla Sparks, utilized images to create a more unique version of her syllabus. Unlike theContinue reading “Response Blog 1”