Author Archives: mollydurrant

A white paper is a report that offers a solution to a problem. It is often used in business/technology to propose a new product/innovation or in government to propose a certain policy/course of action. They are read by the people in the company or government or other institution who are higher up and make decisionsContinue reading “Blog 12: Project 2 Research”

The author of “When Discourses Collide” is Jason Palmeri, who is an associate professor of English at Miami University. At the time that this piece was written, he was a doctoral student of English at Ohio State University. The text was published in a Journal of Business Communication, so the primary audience is most likelyContinue reading “Blog 11: Palmeri”

In “Research Starts with Answers” by Alison C Witte, she explains that research is about seeking information and innovation, not just compiling information that already exists. Witte describes the three stages of research “(1) seeking information that is new to the researcher, (2) interpreting, evaluating, and organizing that information, and (3) reporting that information toContinue reading “Blog 10: Research”

I learned a lot about rhetorical ecologies by doing this project, because it makes it a lot easier to understand the concept of rhetorical ecologies when one creates/sees a visual representation of one. Since a rhetorical ecology incorporates so many different factors and is such a fluid and wide-scoped way of looking at a pieceContinue reading “Blog 9: Project 1”

Wardle: The author of “You Can Learn to Write in General” is Elizabeth Wardle, Howe Professor and Director of the Howe Center for Writing Excellence at Miami University of Ohio. The primary audience of the text is students studying rhetoric, as it was published in Bad Ideas about Writing, a textbook. It implies that “genre”Continue reading “Blog 8: Wardle, Miller”

My revision process took longer than my drafting process because this time, I was very intentional about everything I did. My first draft was on paper, so making the second draft on LucidChart took a lot longer but it makes the map look significantly better and more put together. In my first draft, I addedContinue reading “Blog 7: Revision”

To create my first draft of the rhetorical ecology project, I used the brainstorm we made in class as a jumping off point. Once I knew what I wanted my project to be about and what some of the branches coming off of it were going to be, it was a lot easier to startContinue reading “Blog 6: First Drafts”

Before reading the pieces, I would describe my ideal writing process as a multi-draft process where each time I write a new draft, the piece gets better. My ideal writing process starts with brainstorming and outlining to make sure I have some ideas of what I’m going to be writing about before I start theContinue reading “Blog 5: Giovanelli, Lawson”

The authors of Green Culture, Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America are Stuart C. Brown and Carl G. Herndl. Brown teaches rhetorical history and criticism at New Mexico State University. Herdl is an Associate Professor of English at New Mexico State University, specializing in discourse theory and cultural studies. The primary audience is most likely theirContinue reading “Blog 4: Hendl and Brown”

“Unframing Models of Public Distribution: From Rhetorical Situation to Rhetorical Ecologies” was written by Jenny Edbauer, who is an Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media at the University of Kentucky. The article was published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly in 2005. Since it was published in this academic journal, the primary audience is academicsContinue reading “Blog 3: Edbauer”