This semester I learned some important and practical concepts about digital technologies and digital rhetoric.  Of all of the topics that we covered, I most enjoyed discussions that involved the changing ways that we must assess and teach rhetoric in our classes. In addition, I enjoyed some of the research interests of my classmates: gaming, comic books, remixes, and digital storytelling  now don’t seem so foreign to me, and I hope to incorporate these digitally within my teaching praxis.

I do hope in the future to work on a web text (maybe even this summer), and it seems that I’m putting together an online course for a version of digital Ulysses for a work study project –hopefully it all works out.  In all, I think that this class helped me to reflect upon the ever-changing ways in which we transmit language.  Digital rhetoric requires us to reflect upon  how we persuade, and how we teach students to persuade in today’s technologically mediated culture.   The idea of a remix or a digital project as rhetorical argument, bolsters students’ thinking and creative expression in all the right ways. I’m so curious and interested to be a witness to how college writing and English programs may change in the future to more readily include these methods of expression.

I will continue to research Marianne Moore, and her meticulous attention to the editing process. I’m hoping that my dissertation uncovers the interactions among modernist poets, modernist magazines, and women editors who still remain hidden behind modernism’s masculine impetus.

And finally, this is the first class I’ve taken with people who are teachers and students within the Writing Department, and I really enjoyed their candid, unique remarks. I think sometimes academic classrooms stifle students’ responses (especially when you are surrounded by students and professors who believe in certain academic performances). I felt really comfortable among these students, and my experience has been really fruitful. Thanks everyone for being so great.   Have a nice summer.  Thanks Professor Davidson.  I enjoyed your class!