I’ve learned many things since the semester has begun in DTC355. It is very difficult to choose one topic that I believe is the most important for they have all taught me new things that I believe will all be valuable to me in the future. I enjoyed learning and working with Comic Life this project eased me in to learning the new software I will be learning through the semester. Now after I have finished my project with Comic Life I see many similarities with Adobe Photoshop. I believe Comic Life prepared me to better understand Adobe Photoshop on a more complex level; it in a way gave me a preview of what may come with working with Photoshop. Along with Comic Life, I believe learning Adobe Photoshop has been very important software and has taught me many aspects of the software I did not know was possible to accomplish.
Along with the software I have learned this semester in DTC355, I believe learning about Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity will in turn help me with my Adobe Photoshop skills as well as my Dreamweaver skills. The CRAP principles are the four main principles we constantly come back to in class, which I believe shows the necessity to learn the principles well.
While surfing the web I was looking for links that represented Burbuels definitions of his tropes. I randomly went on a Fox News website because I found a link that directed me there. While on the Fox News website I had found an image of the Twighlight book, I was immediately influenced to click on it without even reading the text below the image of what the article would be about. I realized since my rhetoric card we are very influenced to click on links without even knowing what we may find, which could be why we click on them because of the curiosity that we won’t know what to expect. We often get lucky and find great information when we click on a link we may not have otherwised clicked on if it had not been highlighted, or we may get disappointed that we had found nothing that interested us when clicking on the link. I was disappointed when I had clicked on that Twighlight image, because the article was nothing I was interested in, even though it was funny. The article was about the popular image of the hands on the front cover of the book, and how the person whose hands were photograph was offended because she was not getting the attention she thought she deserved.
While reading the article I saw a link that said “massage therapist,” I clicked on the link and it took me to a Chiropractic site. I believe this link is seen as a “Metaphor.” Burbuels states, “Web links can be read as metaphors when apparently unrelated textual points are associated”(111). Although the fox news article was stating how the women hand model was a massage therapist, that link took me to a site concerning chiropractic specialists which are different topics but do have similarities in that we were given more information about chiropractic specialists and more information about health, stories from patients, and myths and facts. This link may also be seen as a “Metonymy,” Burbuels uses an example of a page on “Vacation Spots” may take you to “How to Avoid Pickpockets”(112). This is similar to what we saw on through this link with massage therapists and chiropractic specialists.
While on the Fox News website I also clicked on “The ‘Social Network’ $cores,” the article gave the rankings in the box office from all the movies that are currently out in theaters. While reading the article “Warner Bros” was able to be clicked on, as I did the link lead me to another page concerning four different links of articles I could choose from. I saw this link as Antistasis which as Burbuels states, “A less familiar trope involves the repetition of a word –the ‘same’ word—in a different context”(113). I saw this trope and its examples that Burbuels stated very relevant to the link I had found. The “Warner Bros” link linked me to many different articles that provided the ‘same’ word in a different setting as seen in the four links that were given.
Burbules, Nicholas. Rheotrics of the Web: Hyperreading and Critical Literacy. 102-120. Print.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/10/03/twilight-model-seeks-hand-glory/?test=faces
http://www.foxnews.com/topics/entertainment/movies/studios/warner-bros.htm
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