Check me out look.
Clive is alive like the hip-hop thrive,
I'm not sure who he is but I'm sure he's got wive...s, that is
Do you like pop with fizz?
Do you like old english men all up in your biz about writing?
He's fighting to tell you why we suck.
He says that all the texting just puts us out of luck with ability,
Stability of writing in itself.
He says that all the slang is putting damage to his health,
And Clive agrees, about as much as now I have to sneeze and I don't,
I won't and Thompson feels the same way,
Our writing and rhetoric is improving everyday,
We got kairos like greeks,
Spirals like geeks in our mind that unwind like lunatic freaks.
I guess that he's saying facebook is a blessing,
And old english farts just need to stop messing,
Cuz our writing is thriving and improving everyday,
Oh, one more thing,
Tell your mom I say "hey."
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Kiefer has contributed meaningfully to a contemporary understanding of what it means to engage with new modes of writing in advanced mediums today. With his blog post, he is able to set up for his audience (us!) the context to which he is responding: the old school says we don't know how to write anymore, but Clive Thompson is offering an alternative definition of literacy. Furthermore, Kiefer has responded to this "larger conversation" using a timely and effective mode of communication that is both inclusive (toward a population familiar with hiphop rhetoric) and exclusive in that in is a direct comment on why the generation gap broadens through unsupported attachs on today's most effective modes of communication.
ReplyDeleteKiefer is saying that technology is helping our writing, changing it so that it is easier for all audiences to understand what our point is. He makes some of the same arguments that Clive Thompson makes about going through a "writing revolution" and how our writing isn't getting worse, its just different.
ReplyDeleteI think his rap is a very entertaining example of how we can write in ways that entice the reader, while still getting our point across. He shows that you can argue a point in this way just as well as you could in any other way.