Blog 10 Feb. 20

After just finishing the first project of ENW 100, I was asked to reflect on the project. First off this project taught me a lot about rhetorical ecologies. Before starting this assignment I was unaware of how many ecologies I could consider myself apart of. When it came down to actually completing the first project I was torn between my different ecologies. I ended up choosing baseball because I feel like it was one of the ecologies I most closely associated myself with. This project also taught me the various and unique dialogue that people use if they consider themselves to be within the baseball ecology. Different ecologies promote different forms and tones of speech. This was important in my memo as I described the different slang used in baseball. As I was completing the memo< i realized how many different “areas” of baseball you can be apart of. Before this project I never thought that the sport of baseball connected people from so many different cultures in so many ways. The map part of the project gave me a hard time at first. The map asked us to use our design and creativity skill to create a map of your rhetorical ecology. As a person who is not very creative, this project taught me how important it is to be creative in your work. It showed me relationships between colors and shapes as well as contrast and saturation. These design terms I would never even think matter until I completed this project. In conclusion the first project on rhetorical ecologies taught me a lot about my ecology as well design.