Computers and Writing

            
Chapter 13 was very insightful as it reverted back to the World Wide Web that we explored in Chapter 2. It explored personal web-sites and how they related to cool. It also examined how cool and corporate development merge on the Web so that they end result predicts a futuristic, web-based writing process.
Cooltown was the [...]

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Chapter Eleven’s “The Beats”, is a very interesting topic to bring into Writing About Cool and Rice had very pertinent and interesting points to make drawing from both Keroac and Burroughs contributions. There were a few ideas, however, that stood out significantly.
One of these was spontanous writing. Found in Kerouac’s, The Subterraneans, this method of [...]

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Plagiarism and remixing are commonly confused terms, although two very different concepts. Remixing is taking samples of peoples work and compiling them to present as your one single work. Plagiarism, on the other hand, is “stealing and passing off ideas (or words of another) as one’s own. Using (another’s production) without crediting the source” (Webster). [...]

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In Chapter 6, Rice would like us to realize many things. According to Rice’s section on Farris Thompson’s discoveries, “itutu” is the original word for the word “cool” in the Yoruban Language. He also wants us to see the implications of this discovery, which indicates “‘cool’ is a way of writing, it identifies this form [...]

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Chapter 1
In Chapter One, of Rice’s “Writing About Cool”, Rice begins by defining what ‘cool’ is. He associates it’s meaning with images like James Dean, Snoop Dogg and Madonna. All of these images carry the characteristics of ‘cool”, which are defined as independence and rebelliousness. Rice believes “when we say someone is cool, that normally [...]

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Chapter 1
In Chapter One, of Rice’s “Writing About Cool”, Rice begins by defining what ‘cool’ is. He associates it’s meaning with images like James Dean, Snoop Dogg and Madonna. All of these images carry the characteristics of ‘cool”, which are defined as independence and rebelliousness. Rice believes “when we say someone is cool, that normally [...]

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The Poem, “That Side of Me” by Alisa Waldron, got my attention due to it’s introspective subject matter. The site as a whole, was very simple, but not in a negative way. It appeared very professional and used it’s images intentionally. They were placed periodically throughout the site [...]

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