ENC3416-Tamara B

          Fair use refers to the boundaries within which copy-righted materials can and should be used. These laws vary depending on purpose and utilization of the material being considered, as well as whether or not payment is involved and the notion of royalties. The readings for today's class answer questions of when, how, and why. When fair use should be considered, is when any copy-righted materials are involved, which the readings mostly push to be on college campuses, or educational environments. How to ensure fair use of this material is answered by attributing the credit to the owner's of the work or when producing work, to avoid legal issues, make the work public so that people know they can use it legally. Fair use is important, as it can be found that many industries rely on it. Without fair use, information would be sort of isolated rather than expanded upon and critiqued/altered by the public, which are things that help to incite progression.

Project 1: Draft 1 Designer's Statement:            Material, from the context of several subjects, even those excluding literature, can essentially be defined as the items from which an item is comprised; what something is made of. The exhibit I have devised for Project 1 could be enlarged and placed in a museum that highlights important factors of texts and evolution, the agents of technogenesis (the coevolution and codependency of humans and text). The audience would be comprised of anyone who wishes to expand their knowledge on text forms and people who are interested in various art forms, more specifically the creative process and how one chooses material based on the message. This project could serve as a blueprint being that it is miniature. The base of it is Styrofoam board; multicolored sheets of construction paper, which would show the subcategories of the exhibit, represent the flooring. There is a wooden deck placed o...

Link: http://museumofeverydaywriting.omeka.net/exhibits/show/lists--organizing-everyday-lif/schedule-lists         The Museum of Everyday Writing Online features an exhibit dedicated to list-making as a form of everyday writing. Within that there are three categories to this style of everyday writing. Task Lists, Schedule Lists, and Shopping Lists make up this exhibit. The Schedule List subsection stood out to me in particular because of the fact that I am a very analytical person who likes to plan and organize, and I often feel as though I am the only person who does so, writing it out by hand, using sections for time, location, and activity. The photo of a schedule is paired with a description of this form of everyday writing and it mimics that of one I would've made/have made in the past, hence my reason for choosing it to discuss and link above. To improve upon this exhibit, there could probably be more categories for types of lists outside of the three liste...

Tam Barrant's EPortfolio: https://tambarrant.wixsite.com/portfolio 

    Design sets the basis of the audience’s first impression. Specific layouts and color schemes provide a sense of atmosphere and foreshadow what may be presented to the audience on the body of work being constructed. Based on the Gestalt Theory, I came to the conclusion that being uniform is important to layout. Multiple pages cannot vary in design or navigation, as the flow of the page/site will be disrupted, and will not hold the attention of the viewer, or seem unorganized. Three key concepts I have gathered from the readings on the construction and development of a design, for anything, is that the format of a “good” app/site/etc. is better off simple in layout than complex (originality is valued, but for a base, things are pretty generic). Decorative typefaces are appealing, but should be reserved for shorter features such as a header, subheading, or title. Also, as minor as it may seem, the importance of typography is immense, seeing that it could make or break in comp...

         Eulogies are a prime example of a text that represents exigence and also presents its own set of constraints. There is somewhat of an urgency to the creation of a eulogy, being that once someone passes, there is a certain time span in which one must be created and an issue being its need for creation and development to present to an audience. Eulogies vary (in content) based on cause of death, religion, relationship to the individual, method of delivery, the audience, the culture, location, and ultimately what the conveyer of the speech aims to evoke from the audience (which could vary if they decide to aim for making an otherwise sad situation, positive), which will all be crucial to the rhetoric of the eulogy. These factors are all constraints that cause there to be differences in the genre of “eulogy” or more specifically the scenario of (a) death. What characterizes this genre are elements that create the exigence of a eulogy. A death, a funeral, a...

Interview on Writing What do you think about when you think about writing? Person 1: “The first thing that comes to mind is ‘difficult’ because, personally, I struggle with thing that involve being really artisitc and creative.” Person 2: “Because of school, I just think of essays and homework; typically long research papers for my major courses.” Person 3: “When I think of writing, I think of narrative writing or storytelling because I like to keep journals and diaries. I like to read memoirs too, so I don’t know if that means I just prefer things that are more personal or relatable.” When do you write? Person 1: “I write when I have to prepare documents for work, usually emails or revisions/summaries or legal documents.” Person 2: “I write whenever I have a writing assignment. I wouldn’t say it’s something I do for fun or with passion.” Person 3: “I write when I feel that there is something I want to have on record. So it could be an idea or something that happened in...

       I am Tamara Barrant. My ideas tend to erupt from my mind in random bursts that force my hands to a keyboard and pen to a page. Because of this, I would consider myself a creative/artistic individual, and so much of what I create is reflective of who I am in essence and what I want the world to perceive of me. I am a very opinionated person; I have something to say about everything, but prefer to choose my battles wisely in terms of when I believe my opinions should be brought to light. That being said, I do also love to hear the opinions and views of others, as well as learn of all the other perspectives out there in the world to avoid arrogance and ignorance, which I find to be some of the worst characteristics. In answering the question who I am, rather than simply stating my name in a simple sentence that, no matter how diplomatic I try to make it sound, will always seem to lack literary pizazz, I feel that all written prior to this sentence provides a much...