What lies at the core of creative work? Last night, I found I couldn't fall asleep and so, sitting at my desk in the dim light, I cracked open the copy of Stephen King's On Writing I had…
Data visualizations abound in our daily lives, especially in the media landscape of today. The dissemination of personal computing devices has brought a new dimension to the discussion surrounding the rhetoric of data, and perhaps the most eclectic…
I write this in response to The Rhetoric of Video Games by Ian Bogost, published in The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning, 2008. I assume the reader is familiar with it. Full citation at the…
This is written in analysis of and response to this television segment, which aired on NBC Nightly News April 3rd, 2019. Please watch the clip to understand the context of this article. The world of television journalism is…
The aim of this article is to analyze the above advertisement for the visual elements that make up its rhetoric. The Guardian has historically been a United Kingdom-based news outlet, but has slowly expanded to cover international and…
As an exercise, this article will be an analysis of the above image for the formative elements that give that image meaning. This picture, at a glance, depicts a few things: two busses, one in the foreground, the…
Note: I had written this post back in 2017 on another site, near the end of high school. I have not edited what I wrote then, despite moderate cringe, because I feel it's important I keep this up…