Bolter, "Writing Space: Computers, hypertext, and the remediation of print"

This article is focusing on the switch of the printed book to more modern forms such a electronic and digital print. Before printed books, handwritten books were the only kind of books, and they were expensive and took a long time to make. The production was usually scare because of the work involved with making just a single book. When printing presses and machines were introduced to the world of books, everything changed. Printed book became more valuable than handwritten books and mass production took off, allowing book circulation to be widespread. Digital printing now also for more creativity-pictures and moving graphics to accompany the texts.
Growing up in an age where technology has become the basis for everything, I am very accustomed to reading text online. While I still personally prefer to purchase actual books, I think that electronic printing is great for reading small articles and such. Electronic and digital printing without a doubt, makes finding a printed text one hundred times easier. Whether you a searching for an actual text to read online or are searching where to purchase a hard (book) copy of the text, the internet makes everything fast and less time consuming.I don't believe that book will ever perish because they still have value and many people like their tangibility.

Balzhiser and McLeod- "The Undergraduate Writing Major"

The emerging and evolving undergrad writing major varies from university to university. The writing major is becoming more popular as it expands and develops a wider variety of "disciplines." Just having a professional writing major and a rhetoric or liberal arts writing major creates more opportunities for students to decide which categories suites them best. When writing majors were knew to colleges, the main kinds of "discipline" was creative writing and journalistic writing. Many writing majors now have no interest in either of those two kinds of writing so having a more versatile major with more concentrations is making this major more popular.
As a writing(EWM) major, I really like how this article talked about the writing major and the fact that is acknowledges the that the major is more complex then simply writing papers. Being enrolled in 2 rhetoric courses and a course that is all about "text", I have learned more about writing then I ever would have by simply taking a writing class. I believe that one needs to know a lot about rhetoric and what text consists of in order to be a skilled writer.

From The Non-Designer's Web Book

This article talks about creating web pages and what constitutes a good or bad web page. Alignment, proximity, repetition, and contrast are 4 key components of designing a web page. The basic design principles serve as a guide or manual for a beginning web page designer. The article is very constructed and gives precise instructions and tips for how to go about the design process. It also points how a web page can be designed poorly and what to avoid from causing that to happen.The examples depicted in the article are also very helpful for visual reference.
This article is important because it explains how to design a web page. It's a very friendly "how to" guide that uses constructive criticisms on bad web pages and offers way to improve them. I, never having designed a web page, found this information to be very useful and easy to follow.

Dan Perkel and Danah Boyd. “Copy, Paste, Remix: Profile Codes on `MySpace.”

This article examines and explains the logistics behind HTML usage on MySpace. Many people have no idea what HTML codes are and decide that they do not even want to know or learn what they are about. People who make fancy MySpace pages often just copy and past images, lyrics, videos, and music onto their profiles without thinking about where they came from. Since they don't own the image and because somebody else created the image, that image is not always guaranteed to remain the same image. When owners of a particular image get mad about people stealing from them, they are free to distort or change the image. This can be unfortunate but may be a good wake-up call for people to be more aware about what they copy and past from the internet.
I used to like to mess around with my MySpace layout when I was younger, and I admit to copying and pasting images without any real knowledge about HTML. I knew that the image came from somewhere, but I never really put any though into the actual process of the creation of the image and the complex coding embedded in it. This article brought awareness to me, and now anytime that I decide to copy and past anything off the internet, I will be wary and acknowledge that the image is not mine.

"Introduction" New Media Design

This article did a very good job explaining what a graphic designer is. Many people usually just think graphic designers work on computers making graphics for computers only but the job is way more broad and widespread than that. I like how the article talked about the importance of graphic design with examples of subway signs and medicine bottle.
It's very true that graphic design guides us through our daily lives. Just think how all of the street signs were graphically designed so people could just quickly glance at them and know exactly what they mean. Graphic design also enhances images or pictures that may have once being old and drab looking. Remolding and old building even involves some elements of graphic design.

"Introduction: The Seventh Sense"

I really like how Truss perceives punctuation. She talks about what other writers think punctuation is and why it's so important for readers. Punctuation is viewed as the stitching and traffic signals of language. Also, punctuation relates to manners, and "punctilious" and "punctuation" are derived from the same root. Punctuation can really affect the whole meaning of a sentence, illustrated with her example of: A woman, without her man, is nothing. AND A woman: without her, man is nothing. Punctuation plays a major role in the meaning of that particular example. One example is stating how a woman is nothing, and the other one is stating how a man is nothing.
I agree that punctuation dictates the way in which we read as well as the meaning of what we read. Truss is right when she says how punctuation is the good manners of writing. I think that punctuation also affects the reader's pace as well as allows room for description for writers. For example, writing a long wordy sentence about a list of things requires commas, and without those commas, the particular sentence would make no sense. I am a grammar fanatic so when I write, I like to make sure I use perfect grammar including variety of punctuation marks.

An Appetite for Coherence: Arousing and Fulfilling Desires

In this article, Fleckenstein explains the importance of coherent writing. She gives many examples of paragraphs that are incoherent. These examples help clarify what she means about writing a coherent paper. While reading the examples, I was unable to decipher the actual context and main meaning of the story. I understood all the of the individual sentences and words, but was unable to find out what the story was actually about. Cohesiveness is very important when writing because if your sentences aren't cohesive then the whole story or message loses meaning or maybe there is simply no way to understand what anything means at all. Fleckenstein's approach to writing in regards to what the reader will think is important because essentially you are writing for some sort of audience. I think that is very crucial to read through a paper keeping in mind how your intended audience will interpret what you wrote.