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For my final project, Assemblage, I am going to discuss one of two things: 1) Why cell phones and social media are a bad thing and 2.) The positives of public transportation. If I chose to write an assemblage on how and why cell phones have a negative effect on society, I would focus on not what the functions of the cell phone (because calling someone is very helpful) but what the constant use of a cell phone does to a person. I would go in detail into writing the effects on the body, the social interaction, and how fake people's lives are. I would add social media to the topic arguing how social media is never a healthy thing in a relationship. This relationship could be a romance, a friend, or even family; social media is not a helpful feature in these relationships. If I do not choose this topic of social media or cell phones then I would talk about the positives of public transportation. I would suggest the making of a law or rule that people would have to use public transportation more. I would discuss the problem with global warming because of all of the pollution. I do not have much on this topic so I will probably pick the cell phone topic.

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For my final assignment I believe I will focus on the importance of assemblage vs. copying or plagiarism. Plagiarism has often been such a scary subject when it comes to my writing. Until taking this course I didn't realize how much in inhibited my creativity and created a disconnect in my work. I would love to write about how learning more about assemblage and remixing has allowed me to trust my own words more and freed my creativity. I would also like to pull from Richards article about "The Interinanimation of Words" and Bolter and Grussin's introduction to the "Double Logic of Remediation". Remediation was originally difficult to comprehend, but once I was clear on its definition, the concept really helped my writing.

Da'Vante Phillips

 

 

A healthy body makes a human feel better about their self, you can walk better, breath better, and perform in activities better. For my project, and my first idea I would like to convince people to lower their diet to healthier food. I would commend we have at least one semester of a weight loss class and/or better dieting. I have a strong concern about people who don’t respect their health, and eat things that’s not healthy for the body. We all know on campus we have many food places to make our calories go sky high, and stores that sale snacks that put fat in your body. This class will keep kids on a schedule that will have them burning the calories they gain during the week, and it will you get to a weight that you hypothetically want for yourself.

 

For my second idea, I chose the legalization of marijuana for this project, because as a kid my dad smoked marijuana all the times, and there is small sign effect like drowsiness or small lose memory nut that’s only if you allow your body to react to it like. We all know if you do this particularly drug, you may have a hard times performing in activities that cause you to run. Pot is a famous or shall I say a well-known drug that existed for many years. It is not like the other drugs like needle injections, cocaine, Xanax, or heroine. All those specific drug cause dosage of the body and/or having you seeing things I believe, marijuana just have you feeling mellow and more chilled which I been told. I would like to convince people if we legalize this drug it will not cause problems at all I insure you that. If you think marijuana are a drug to just smoke for fun YOU WRONG!! Pot is also known for medical purposes, “Your body already makes marijuana-like chemicals that affect pain, inflammation, and many other processes. Marijuana can sometimes help those natural chemicals work better." -Laura Bolgert www.WEBMD.com

 

 

 

 

3rd Idea I am still thinking about that one Mr.Maynard

 

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         Exigence is defined as a imperfection marked by urgency. it is a defect, an obstacle, something waiting to be done, a thing which is other than it should be. an example of exigence would be something such as global warming, a hurricane, or any natural disaster.
         Audience is someone capable of receiving knowledge, and able to constrain in decesion or action.
         Constraints influence the rhetor and can be brought to beqar upon the audience.

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Bitzer defines rhetoric as the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

1. Exigence:Any exigence is an imperfection marked by urgency; it is a defect, an obstacle, something waiting to be done, a thing which is other than it should be. As it relates to rhetoric exigence is an inspiration. Not all exigences are rhetorical, it only becomes rhetorical when it is capable of positive modification and when positive modification requires discourse or can be assisted by discourse. For example pollution because the reduction of air pollution strongly invites the assistance of discourse producing public awareness, indignation, and action of the right kind. Another example would be when someone raises their hand up (this is a form of rhetorical discourse)

2. Audience:The scientific audience consists of persons capable of receiving knowledge as stated by Bitzer. Since rhetorical discourse produces change by influencing the decision and action of persons who function as mediators of change, it follows that rhetoric always requires an audience. The only way for rhetoric to be fully effective is for the audience to understand what is being proposed and are willing to support what is being presented. 

3. Constraints: Bitzer states that "Besides exigence and audience, every rhetorical situation contains a set of constraints made up of persons, events, objects, and relations which are parts of the situation because they have the power to constrain decision and action needed to modify the exigence." H e goes on to say that there are two types of constraints, those that originate by rhetor and those that may be operative. Basically a constraints are elements of the situation that limits what can or cannot be said. An example in  rhetorical constraints that limit the strategies available for response is as followed. If The rhetorical exigencies might include the need to produce counter-rhetoric to forestall regulation or to defend challenged actions in public (by publicizing oil spills or automobile recalls). The rhetorical constraints might include legal or financial limitations on the channels the opponent could use or the language and claims available to be made 

Da'Vante Phillips
ENC1101
3/24/15

 

Define the three constituents of Bitzer’s rhetorical situation. Provide examples of each.

 Exigence- is an imperfection marked by urgency; it is a defect, an obstacle, something waiting to be done, a thing which is other than it should be.

Ex. Global Warming and Hurricanes are something that cannot be change.

 

 Audience- to be constrained in decision and action.

Ex. A Poet reading there poem or a Singer singing a song is an ex. of an audience. Because they informing people of there knowledge.

 

 Constraints- influence the rhetor and can be brought to bear upon the audience.

Ex. An autobiography and a diary are constraints due to the fact that I can’t really change the things I believe in because it pertains to me.

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constraints. A rhetorical situation or event is one that contains an issue that applies to an audience accompanied by a set of constraints.

An exigence is a reason or something waiting to be done It’s the base of the situation/ what the problem is built upon . Not all exigences are rhetorical. According to Bitzer, only exigences that can be modified and positive modification that requires discourse or the assistance there of, is rhetorical. He uses the example of air pollution, because the reduction of air pollution is brought on by discourse producing public awareness and action.

Bitzer describes a rhetorical audience as persons capable of being influenced by discourse and being mediators of change. The audience must contribute to the decision or the change in order to be considered audience. The writer gives an example of scientists and poets that do not require an audience in order to produce their end.

A rhetorical situation contains constraints- persons, events, objects and relations. These constraints can limit decisions and actions needed to alter the exigency. The two main classes of constraints are stated as those which are operative and those that originate by the rhetoric. Other examples of constraints include facts, attitudes, beliefs, documentary and many more. Constraints are basically what impacts as well as changes the final decision. But its not just what changes it but how, for example what beliefs, opinions, and traditions that caused it to do so.

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1. The first constituent that Bitzer talks about is exigence. Exigence is the reason someone writes or the topic that they are talking about. The exigence is what inspires someone to write. An example of an exigence would be animal rights, drug use, the drinking age, or any other prominent issue.

2. The second constituent that Bitzer talks about it audience. A rhetoric is usually a persuasive writing piece, so you would need an audience to be able to persuade. It is important that you understand your audience, because you need to know their interests and things that relate to them. You would not give a speech about why hunting should be illegal to members of a hunting club. You need to know your targeted audience so you can cater your speech to them.

3. The final constituent discussed by Bitzer are constraints. These are things that help convince the audience to change and help the exigence that the author is trying to persuade. For example, if I am giving a presentation on why animals should not be hunted, I would provide statistics and pictures to back up my argument and convince the audience that it is wrong. Examples of constituents can also be people's beliefs and values, interests, and culture.

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Define the three constituents of Bitzer’s rhetorical situation & provide examples of each.

1. exigence: "any exigence is an imperfection marked by urgency; it is a defect, an obstacle, something waiting to be done, a thing which is other than it should be." in rhetorical writing, an exigency is what inspires someone to write. Usually the exigency needs to be presented and explained to an audience to gain support before it can get fixed. Exigencies are not always rhetorical, for it to be so, it must be modifiable and requires discourse. Some examples of rhetorical exigencies include racism, pollution, bullying, drug abuse, drunk driving, etc.

2. audience: rhetoric is persuasive writing, so there always must be an audience to persuade. Bitzer defines a rhetorical audience as consisting "only of those persons who are capable of being influenced by discourse and of being mediators of change" In rhetoric, understanding what types of people composing the audience is extremely important. For someone giving a rhetorical speech on drunk driving, it would not be rhetorical if the speech were given to students at an elementary school because they are not necessarily capable of being influenced since they cannot drink or drive, and they cannot be mediators of change if they aren't influenced by the topic. A more appropriate audience that would make the speech rhetorical would be an audience of college students. They are the prime targets for this exigency because it effects the lives of people around them or perhaps even themselves.

3. constraints: Bitzer says "every rhetorical situation contains a set of constraints made up of persons, events, objects, and relations which are parts of the situation because they have the power to constrain decision and action needed to modify the exigence" Constraints are essentially the parts of the rhetorical situation that convince the audience to take action to positively modify the exigence. Bitzer's examples of constraints include beliefs, attitudes, documents, facts, traditions, images, interests, motives. An example of a constraint for the drunk driving example could be images of car accidents caused by drunk driving, or statistics on how many people die each year from drunk driving.

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A rhetorical situation or event is one that contains an issue that applies to an audience accompanied by a set of constraints. Bitzer describes the three constituents that appear in a rhetorical situation as exigence, audience, and constraints. 

1. Exigence: I find this pretty hard to define and talk about, but from the reading I get the feeling and exigence is the base of the situation. The exigence is what the situation or argument is built around because it has examples listed that seem to be problems that require discourse to be solved, or not to be solved. But that lead to another description of a rhetorical exigence because a characteristic it must be able to be modified. Things such as the weather or death would not be rhetorical exigences, but racism or the pollution in the air caused by humans would be. 

2. Audience: Rhetorical situations always require an audience simply because of what a rhetorical situation is, aka a persuasive or argumentative action. An audience is described as a reader or hearers of the action being disputed, but the audience can only be classified as an audience of the particular rhetoric argument if they can contribute to the decision of the final outcome or change. So, anyone that rhetorical situation is directed at, maybe the people of a town that wants to pass or deny the legalization of weed and come to the meetings about it would be an audience. 

3. Constraints: From the reading I see constraints as a two part description. Constraints are seen as people, events, etc. that could impact the change or final decision, but the sub part of the people making the constraints are stemmed from their beliefs, opinions, interests, and traditions. The list is longer than the but the gist is a constraint can come from a person but the reason behind their constraint is what makes up their reasoning behind it. 

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Rhetoric is the ability or craft of speaking or writing effectively and persuasively. One often makes use of different figures of speech when performing this skill. It is reputable for having an impressive effect on audiences. Unfortunately it can also be considered as content lacking in meaning and truthfulness.

Bitzer sets out to reintroduce the notion of rhetorical situation to confirm it as managing and underlining concern of rhetorical theory. He explains that there are three components of rhetorical situation: exigency, audience and constraints.

An exigence is a reason or something waiting to be done. Not all exigences are rhetorical. According to Bitzer, only exigences that can be modified and positive modification that requires discourse or the assistance there of, is rhetorical. He uses the example of air pollution, because the reduction of air pollution is brought on by discourse producing public awareness and action.

Bitzer describes a rhetorical audience as persons capable of being influenced by discourse and being mediators of change. The writer gives an example of scientists and poets that do not require an audience in order to produce their end (whether it is scientific work or a poem).

A rhetorical situation contains constraints- persons, events, objects and relations. These constraints can limit decisions and actions needed to alter the exigency. The two main classes of constraints are stated as those which are operative and those that originate by the rhetor. Other examples of constraints include facts, attitudes, beliefs, documentary and many more. 

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For my project, I want to focus on issues that are really important to me. The first topic that I would like to focus on is making it illegal to hunt endangered animals in Africa. This would appeal to a wide variety of people who consider themselves animal lovers. I would convey my message through a poster board with images and statistics showing why it is more beneficial that animal poaching becomes illegal. Another issue I would want to focus on is the raising of the minimum wage across the country. This issue affects a lot of people so there would be a diverse range of people who would be interested in this topic. I would present my project by making a newspaper article talking about the benefits of raising the minimum wage.

Define the three constituents of Bitzer’s rhetorical situation. Provide examples of each.

   
  The three constituents of Blitzer's rhetorical situation are exigence, the audience, and the constraints. Exigence is an imperfection marked by urgency, it is a defect, an obstacle, something waiting to be done, a thing in which is other than it should be. An exigence is rhetorical when it is capable of positive modification requires discourse or can be assisted by discourse. A man’s acts are injurious to others and that the quality of his act can be changed only if discourse is addressed to him, the exigence-his injurious acts is the unmistakably rhetorical. Second is the audience. Since the rhetorical discourse produces changes by influencing the decision and action of persons who function as mediators of change. it follow that rhetoric always requires an audience. An example of an audience could be the students from the class, anyone who are considered listeners or hearers. Last is the constraints made up of persons, events, objects, and relations which are parts of the situation because they have the power to constrain decision and action needed to modify the exigence. Include beliefs, attitudes, documents, facts, traditions, images, interests, motives and the like; and when the orator enters the situation, his discourse not only harnesses constraints given by situation but provides additional important constraints — for example his personal character, his logical proofs, and his style. There are two main classes of constraints: (1) those originated or managed by the rhetor and his method (Aristotle called these "artistic proofs"), and (2) those other constraints, in the situation, which may be operative (Aristotle's "inartistic proofs"). Both, classes must be divided so as to separate those constraints that are proper from those that are improper.

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For my final project I tried to think about things I truly have an interest in to write about in order to stand behind what I am trying to convince you of. I have brainstormed two ideas so far. My first one is that yoga and meditation should be a required course for at least one semester at both a high school and college level. As someone who goes to yoga at least three times a week and struggled with anxiety I can see and feel the benefits of yoga and meditation which I believe everyone, but especially students could benefit from practice. High school curriculum and college classes have increased and become more and more stressful over the years and many students do not know methods to cope with stress. Stress can be minimized by a lot of tactics, but breathing and exercise have been proven to work wonders for young adults with stress.
My second thought was to set the argument of changing the legal drinking age from twenty one back to eighteen. I believe that because the US puts such a high emphasis on the drinking age young teens want to rebel against it, which is evident that this happens. Many countries overseas allow for young children to have a glass at dinner which takes away from the fun and risk of drinking that so many kids in America feel. I believe lowering the drinking age would lower the arrests, MIPS, and deaths from alcohol poisoning if the drinking age was lowered.

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For my final project I brainstormed 3 ideas. I will focus on the multiple modes used to create the different possible assemblages, the genres evoked, while emphasizing rhetoric. My arguments are mostly world-news based.

For my first idea I have chosen the legalization of rhino poaching in South Africa. This is a very controversial and sensitive topic as many are against the idea, while many others belief that the people will at least have control over when and how the poaching will take place. There is also a considerable amount of money to be made when selling these horns. These, and many other concepts, opinions and beliefs will be stated by creating a poster. The poster will consist of various images and information of rhino poaching copied, combined and transformed to support my argument for the legalization of rhino horns. The poster will target a concerned audience who may want to help or are helping protect rhinos from extinction. The poster is there for fitting as it consist of images, texts and big headlines to immediately draw the reader’s attention and emphasize the immediacy and importance of this issue.

Another argument, to persuade the audience made up of sport fans and enthusiasts, athletes and sport officials as well as most of the general public interested in Germany’s financial state and tourism, is that of Germany as possible candidate to host the 2024 Olympics. I will create a pamphlet with interesting and factual information about Germany and images of the beautiful landscape and people as well as why this country would be considered a great host.

Lastly, I can also create a video to persuade an audience of high school students, teachers and the men and women at the head of the board of decision making, to make class periods shorter. The video will be short and direct as to keep the students attention. The video will consist of clips of unconcerned students and teachers in contrast with lively students and teachers combined and transformed to persuade my audience that shorter periods might be considered as more beneficial for students and teachers.

Brainstorm ideas for your final project, attending to exigence and audience, along with the types of pre-existing texts you’d like to draw upon to craft your message.

I would like to use making marijuana legal so that many people could use it. Weed is the source that helps a lot of people with certain illnesses and health problems. My motivation for talking about this is because this information can really help many people that are having health problems or are mentally ill. I know for a fact that some athletes find it a good source because of past concussions and brain problems. As well as with older people dealing with Alzheimer's and glaucoma. Cancer patients also find using marijauna a benefit because they are able to relax their body and put it at ease and it helps them with their therapy they believe that it calms the patient. I would like to do a poster to show the actual facts on using marijauna because it is not as bad as what people are making it really seem either. A poster is also a visual way for a person to see facts instead of just reading an article. Using a poster is an eye grabber because it is some thing different from the normal text. It would encourage more people to look at it and to read it. I could also maybe do a PowerPoint on informing everyone about marijauna this is another tool that helps because you don't have to just read something   it's also a good visual way. A short video/commercial giving facts and information about the use of weed and why it is so useful to the human body. I know people use weed for Tourette's syndrome, eating disorders, arthritis, and insomnia.

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       In my final project i may be arguing that student athletes should be paid. My audience will be a wide audience because i will pick all sports fans. i feel that this paper will change many peoples veiws on student athletes and the work that they put in.
      another thing that i may write about in my final project is welfare. i will be arguing that people on welfare should be required to take drug test
 

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I believe the relationship between multimodality and genre is intertwined with one relying on another. Genre is pretty well known as a category or an organizer. There are different genres of writing, music, movies, you name it. These genres help us decipher what we are about to watch, or maybe help us find more music we like to listen to based on some of our favorite songs being in that genre. Multimodality uses modes to create a message that falls into these genres. Without the use of text, speech, time and space, which are all modes, there would not be a message to categorize into a genre. So, I think the relationship between the two is a direct one that feeds off of each other.

What do you see as the relationship between multimodality and genre?”

The relationship I see between genre and multimodal its that they are both used to convey messages through different types of media. Multimodality is the use of modes to get a point across with using different methods such as a video, PowerPoint,music, and images. Genre is a communication that can be used through any type of mode. That's all I really know about the relationship between the two they both are used to create modes to get points across and for specific audiences

genre and multimodality

Multimodality is generally the action of combining many different modes to convey one certain idea. Modes are simply ways of communicating messages. These can be in forms of media such as images,videos, gifs, plain text, music, charts and graphs. Genre is a category of a any type of communication. multimodality uses certain things to reach a certain viewing audience. depending on the form of genre that can determine the level of multimodality and even the type of modes used. for example in a travel brochure you would most likely see many attractive pictures of places around the world. My remediation project will be a video compilation featuring an array of different modes such as motion picture, static picture and narration. I chose motion picture in hopes of catching the readers attention as opposed to only static picture what can get very boring standing its own. I also decided to use narration so that viewers can follow my video and pick up on the connections between my genealogy and the remediation of it. The remediation will be geared towards people who have a keen interest in adult comedy series and persons interested in racial and discrimination on television. All of these modes essentially increases the multimodality in the video. If it had turned out that my remediation only comprised of one mode the multimodality of it would very low.                                                        

Multimodality and Genre

Multimodality is a concept where you use multiple different modes in order to convey a message to your audience. A mode is a way of communicating that message, whether it be written words, speech, images, spatial cues, etc. A genre is a specific category that a work might be placed in that appeals to a targeted audience. For example, there are lots of music genres such as Hip Hop, Rap, Country, and Rock. To make up a genre, you have to combine together multiple modes to create the message that is associated with that particular genre. The modes that go into a country song will be different than the modes that go into a dubstep song. In a dubstep song, there are not usually many words in the song and the music and beat is all made using technology. However, a country song focuses more on using words to portray their message and they use live instruments. They use these different modes in order to separate the different genres and make them unique. The modes are the little bits and pieces that combine together to make up the pieces of the overall genre that the piece is associated with.

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Multimodality in its most basic form is the use of multiple modes together. It is an assumption of communication and social symbolism. Multimodality uses modes such as textual, spatial and visual resources (for a specific reason) to create a specific message. A genre is a grouping or calcification of inventive configuration. A genre is portrayed by using specific modes, with their various functions, to evoke a specific meaning intended to fit the targeted audience. Different modes contribute different elements such as sound, feeling and even smell to keep from making language too general when creating a message for the specific genre.

For my Remediation, as an example portraying the relationship between genre and multimodality, I have decided to create cartoon strips using images from the series to create a comedic dialog between the characters from “How I Met Your Mother” and “Friends”. My intended audience is therefor newspaper and comic strip readers, people who enjoy the comical aspects of a program and “Friends” as well as “How I Met Your Mother” fans. The genre will accordingly be Comedy.

Various modes are used to create a cartoon strip. Textual modes include the texts in the balloons, the captions, font and font size of these words to evoke a certain tone, mood and volume of the speaker. The textual modes are used to humour the reader and provide inside jokes, dialogue and the main story line of the strip. The layout of the strips is very important to draw the readers’ attention and focus the central idea that the medium represented is a cartoon strip. Modes used to create the layout are the intertextual panels, spacing of the words, captions, balloons, images, size of the panels and background. The strips have visual modes such as images of the different characters to entertain and evoke humour. Many more modes are represented in the strip that will be included in my reflection.

These examples of multiple modes were used to create and support the comedic genre. Their various functions contribute to cover all the conventions of a comic strip.

Multimodality

Multimodality is a variable approach that understands communication and representation to be more than just text. It has been developed over the past decade to systematically address much-debated questions about changes in society, for instance in relation to new media and technologies. A mode “is a informally and traditionally shaped resource for making meaning. Image, writing, layout, speech, moving images are all examples of different modes In the second,” “semiotic modes, similarly, are shaped by both the basic characteristics and potentialities of the medium and by the requirements, histories and values of societies and their cultures”. Thus, every mode has a different modal resource, which is usually and socially situated and which breaks it down into its parts, because “each has distinct potentials. Wysocki agrees with Kress views on multimodality, in an exaggerated approach. Kress argues that the way space is used on a page affects how we read and interpret the content on that page. While Wysocki argues that we should fully understand the spaces so we can get the full usage out of it.

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What is Multimodality? How would you define Modes? What is the tension between Kress and Wysocki’s view of multimodality? Pay attention to how the two treat time and space here

Technically speaking, multimodality “is an inter-disciplinary approach that understands communication and representation to be more than about language.” In much easier and other terms, multimodality is the bringing together or different modes to preach a certain idea or thought. Modes are the certain ways that points are made to a set of people. The information is the same in different modes, it is how a person presents the information. A poster verses a powerpoint, a video verses a song, etc. Kress states his information using multiple modes for the audience while Wysocki uses one or two. I like Kress’s way better because all people learn and interpret information differently. There are visual learners and digital learns and so on. Using multiple modes will appeal to all kinds of people.

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         Multimodality is the process of combining different modes to portray the same information. A mode is the way something is presented to an audience, not the information itself. For example a video that talks about music, compared to a paper that talks about music those are two different modes. The tension between kress and wysockis view on multimodality is that kress beleives in using many modes to get his point across as to where wysockis view is to get his point across using fewer modes but using them the right way. I also feel like kress focuses more on the visual aspect of the mode more than wysocki.

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Multimodality is the assemblage of different modes to convey a message. One uses these modes to portray the ideas, feelings, and meaning behind a specific message. I would define modes as the composition and what goes into a meaning or message. So a news website has several modes because it is made up of words, page layouts, graphics, images, etc.

Although Wysocki made a point to state that he agrees with Kress, he goes into greater detail and expands farther on the topic of modes, what people expect to see, and time. Kress asks the question what are the limits for people to read a layout and understand the message while Wysocki wants to think past that and start to think where can we not be limited. He believes some of Kress’ points are incomplete because of this. Space and time have an impact on how we understand the context of a message and Wysocki wants to play more into the ideas behind that theory and push the limits on them.