Blog Post 10

Writing (as stated in my previous blog post) is a form of communication. Letters, spaces and punctuation is used to communicate your thoughts and ideas in a formation that can be read and studied. Although my basic definition for writing has somewhat not changed since the beginning of the semester, I have learned about the many different conventions of writing and how to apply this knowledge to genres (as every genre has its own conventions).

Everything is essentially a remix. Everything (from songs, movies, and literature to technologies, buildings and even cars) can be analysed and simplified to have been created through the process of copying, combining and transforming. When you adjust or improve something from its original form through the use of these three processes, the new form is considered to be a remix of its original. You start by copying other original ideas and then adding and combining these ideas and eventually transforming them, you create a remix.

To write is to make a remix. Editing is a way of improving and bettering your previous work, therefore you are creating a remix of your old work. When producing a new piece of writing, one uses the three key processes to create your remix. Consequently, all pieces of writing-I can now confidently say- are remixes.

Whilst writing my first blog post for this class, I was unsure of the definition of a remix and just how broad this term stretches. Like most students, I thought the term only applied to music. The connection between writing and remixes is evident- they are one and the same.