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Main Take Away
The main take away from this article is that it explains how people write and learn through out a college campus. It is important to college students that their environment is key to learning. She argues that the history of writing in the US composition instruction as well as its contemporary legacy functions to limit our professional understanding of composing as a multimodal rhetorical activity. English is not the same as it was years ago it is changing but in a positive way.
Three important terms:
Sonic Environments: The songs music and podcasts they produce and listen to, the cell phones conversations in which they immerse themselves, the headphones and nanos that accompanies where they go, the thumper cars they use to turn the streets into concert stages; the audio blogs, video soundtracks and mixes they compose and exchange with each other and share with anyone else who will lsiten.
Rhetorical sovereignty: The right and responsibilities that students have to idenitify their own communicative needs and to represent their own identities to select the right tools for the communicative context within which they operate and to think critically and carefully about the meaning that they and others compose.
Historical shift: Occurred during the 19th century , from an older style of education based on declamation, oratory, forensics, and delivery to a new style of education based primarily on the study and analysis of written texts both classical and contemporary.
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