The essay below is meant to explain and rhetorically analyze a Prezi and a video, both of which can be found by clicking here. After countless hours of researching, touring, taking pictures, re-taking pictures, drafting and redrafting, I am proud to say I have finally reached the end of my college writing journey. In […]
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Mapping Commonplaces – Intro to A Story About Shaw
Greetings! My name is Cory Myrtil and as part of my freshman year at American University I took my College Writing Seminar on “Mapping Complexity: Embodied Subjectivity, Multi-positionality, and the Becoming of the Citizen-Rhetor.” Through this class I was given the opportunity to talk about the rhetoric of Washington DC using the knowledge of books […]
Mapping Commonplaces: A Story About Shaw – The Project
Throughout this semester I researched 5th & O Street intersection in the Howard/Shaw area. The reason why I had chosen Shaw was because in his book S Street Rising Ruben Castaneda had described this street intersection as a “combat zone” (105) one that was filled off strawberries, cocaine, and gang affiliated murders. I thought […]
Rhetorical Choices Explanation
When I first started this project, I had no idea what or where the Edgewood neighborhood was. To be honest, I chose the area because it was separated from all of the other pins on the Google Map and I did not want to pick a site that was too jumbled in with the others. […]
Final Project: Mapping Commonplaces
Introduction to Web Page For my College Writing class this semester I had to research and visit a location of my choice in order to end up making a huge individual project. The certain locations available were in a class Google Maps and the commonplace I decided to choose was The Shiloh Baptist Church in […]
Built Environment Project: Judiciary Square
For my College Writing 101 class, I have spent the semester researching and visiting the Judiciary Square area of Washington, D.C. I initially chose the U.S. District Attorney’s office as my location, but noticed that there was a bigger story to be told in the area surrounding it. Judiciary Square as a whole as a narrative […]
The Theatre, the Wall, and Shaw
In Ruben Castaneda‘s S Street Rising, Shaw is described as “a vibrant cultural center” (50). I wanted to explore what Castaneda meant by this, so I set out into Washington to research the area myself. He was right. It is a cultural center and it is quite vibrant. But I feel there’s more to […]
The Green City
Working title – A PART OF NATURE Genre – short film/documentary Duration – 5-7 minutes Target Audience – DC locals; Rock Creek residents and park preservation activists; general public of all ages. Outline – The black screen fades into a camera facing me as I tilt my head up and stare into it. You will […]
Mapping Commonplaces: Replanting The Mayflower
By Kwesi Billups Introduction Throughout the course of the semester, students in my College Writing Seminar have embarked on a semester-long journey to investigate the rhetorical situations of various locations around the nation’s capital, Washington D.C. Some students chose to work with street intersections, while others chose more historically documented and culturally relevant locations such as […]
Up Close with Eagles
In the midst of everything that goes on in the world, there are many “commonplaces” that link us to seemingly unrelated matters. What is a commonplace, you may ask? A commonplace (or topos) has many definitions which include: a physical space in which people can congregate, a shared idea, and the way in which topic […]