A Critical Introduction
WHAT YOU’RE GOING TO SEE…AND WHY This semester, like many other students at the University of Illinois, Springfield, I was fortunate enough to take part in a Digital Rhetoric course, which challenged my thoughts and my place in the world as a designer. As someone who does all of their social media management for four different podcasts, three of which are scripted, and then is also the social media manager at their current occupation, I am someone who is constantly designing. From Canva+ to drawing to written word, I am constantly having to come up with new ideas that will impact the way people see things, hear things, and notice things, depending on certain demographics and meanings. In the first week of our course, I stated on the idea of rhetoric, “Overall, rhetoric is human interaction that is built off of persuasion. It’s someone saying the sky i...