Redefining Definitions

The terms “writing”, “editing”, and “composing” all work simultaneously together. With writing, it is just the collection of one’s personal thoughts and ideas onto paper in a way that has no intentional purpose. Editing involves taking these written words and revising them to make the writing more formal and intentional. Towards the end of the process of both editing and writing, the written word has become more organized as it now undergoes some sort of purpose. The term “Composing” embodies that current idea. Composing is very much intentional as every word, phrase, and idea are used to achieve a certain rhetorical goal. In specific you must think about the terms of design, audience, genre, network, assemblage and exigence to truly create a worthwhile composition. By identifying each of these terms for your piece, the composition can be so much more focused towards the rhetorical goal. It is also important to keep these terms in mind when one is editing a piece of work because it will help guide you into what is considered valuable to the piece and what should be changed and reworked. All in all, the key terms help provide for a focus and vision for the piece so that way it is easy to transition it from just a couple of thoughts provided for by writing into a formal essay created through composing.
Project two truly put an emphasis on what it means to compose. The original assemblages were all created with some sort of purpose and rhetorical situation, so having to change that assemblage into something else unique, but with similar meanings was quite a challenge. The emphasis was truly on what composing could do to create a piece with meaning.

            Outside of class I think writing in general has a large impact on my life. In the prevalent world of social media, I am constantly writing and editing. Whether it is a twitter post or an Instagram caption these three terms come together to formulate the end product. It doesn’t seem like quite an academic task because it is for my own personal use, however, it does emphasis the process in which ideas come together to form a final product.

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  1. UnknownNovember 28, 2017 at 9:16 AM

    I wonder, then, if these social media examples are writing, composing, or both using your definitions? Also, does it need to be academic to be composition--will the professional creation you go onto make be a kind of composing?

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