Kress pgs. 84-121

Like many others, I also found this text difficult to digest (even after a second reading). Nevertheless, as with all texts, I found some things worth the effort of digesting while others I found both difficult to understand and difficult to apply. The most useful components of the text, as previously stated, were the definitions themselves. The definitions allow us the chance to come up with an example/application that makes sense to us (because let's face it--Kress doesn't always do this for us). I find that the biggest help is when we have an understanding of the definitions or at the very least definitions to work with and we're able to discuss them in class and generate examples/discuss them as a group. It's funny, for me at least, how after understanding what a concept means I find myself applying it to everything. How many of you have said, "that's remediated!"? I know I have.