Week 2 – maggie d

Ridolfo, DeVoss, Klee

I remember really enjoying the concept of composing for recomposition when I first read about it. I think the thing that caught my eye the most was that there are people who know when they “compose” or write something, others will take it and make it their own. From a student who only ever really writes anything for her professors, it’s a cool concept! I also really enjoy rhetorical velocity. Rhetoric having the capability for velocity doesn’t seem right at first, but taking into account the way that the viewers or audience will recieve or understand the piece is a really cool way to emphasize velocity. I like the concept that a positive reception could be taken as a “faster” velocity, and a negative reception like a slower or stickier velocity. Delivery having a different velocity than it once did is also an interesting concept. Deicity really connects to rhet velocity, because a text could gain or lose more velocity depending on the rate that it’s being received at! Deicity can also apply to current news which is really cool. I like that the clarification between a search with and without quotation marks adds or takes away to the velocity of the piece.

The concept of AI-generated papers that literally have no paper trail being used in academia is so surreal. The ethics behind using AI generated “sources” is one thing, but the fact that some people/students don’t even check to see if their sources are real is crazy. Even if you’re sure of a source you’re using, it’s just common sense to make sure everything you’re using is valid. Especially in today’s world, double checking what’s going on seems like common sense. It’s also terrifying that AI has the capability to create things that pass as real academia.