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Workshop Recap: Overdubbing Audio

The DWRL's new recording room saw its first action in the Overdubbing Audio Workshop held this past Friday. Will Burdette was at the helm, and he began by instructing participants on both audio recording equipment and strategies, with particular focus on recording in studio environments. He then provided those present...

Lesson Plan: Peer Recordings, or Revising Peer Review

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Adobe Creatives: What’s the Difference?

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Lesson Plan: Visual Literacy and Infographic (Re)Composition

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#TBT: Multimediating

In today’s #TBT post, we showcase an episode of the DWRL's rhet/tech podcast Zeugma. "Multimediating" considers the productive forms of risk and failure that come with introducing audio assignments into university writing courses. In the episode, Dr. Rita Raley, Associate Professor of English at the University of California-Santa Barbara, talks...

Cool Tools: Sound Mapping

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Is a Listicle Better than an Essay?

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Typographic Prosopopoeia Lesson Plan

Among the many other fantastic lesson plans outlined by our DWRL colleagues for the recent Digital Pedagogy Open House, the Typography Team™ offered the following exercise as one way to integrate a rhetoric of fonts into a writing classroom. In your typical freshman comp class, instructors often observe that a student tends to give more thought to...