Epic Reads is a digital community created by HarperCollins that caters to Young Adult readers. The site promotes HarperCollins’ YA publications through blog posts, polls and quizzes, online forums, and giveaways. The very top of the site, which remains the same no matter what content you are looking at, includes the Epic Reads logo, which…
2) Rhetorical Design Choices: Goodreads.com
On goodreads.com, “users can add books to their personal bookshelves, rate and review books, see what their friends and authors are reading, participate in discussion boards and groups on a variety of topics, and get suggestions for future reading choices based on their reviews of previously read books.” I first discovered goodreads last year when…
1: The Magic of Multimodality
As a creative writer, I was well aware that language is key when creating any kind of text. Rather it be a short story, poem, or article, word choice is extremely important. It determines how the writing is received by the reader. However, after my review of Multimodality and how it works in Kristin Arola’s…
1: Considering Audience in the Digital Age
Keira’s post about social media got me thinking about audience, especially in light of Writer/Designer’s first chapter. Due to the digital nature of social media, it often seems to have a wider, more uncontrollable audience than something in print. For example, many of us have been told—or, in most cases, lectured—from a young age that…
1: Multimodal Projects and Social Media
When I think about multimodal projects I often forget about social media, specifically my own social media. I have Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook but, as Okkerse addressed in their post, The Complexity of the Digital Text, I don’t think about how everything I post on there is a multimodal project that I went through the…