What would happen if the whole world became literate?

I'm not sure if it would be too terribly different from the world we're in now.  Literacy rates across the globe are the highest they've ever been, so I would just expect more of the same.
We'd probably be getting an influx of thought from old native cultures who have formerly not joined the global community, because of language and social barriers.

Gabby's Presentation (Comp. Theory)

Audience addressed - the audience is a concrete group, they do exist. has more power than the writer to affect a piece.  Feedback, writer tailors to audience.  You may run the risk of stereotyping or over-generalizing your audience or marginalizing other audiences (queer theorists).  Rhetoric-minded.
Audience invoked - your audience is ficitonalized, you're writing to who you think will read your stuff, based on what the writer needs/hopes for a piece, audience has no say in what the writer makes. Assuming what your audience wants to hear is an example of this, like "sex sells, so I'll write erotica"
Pedagogy - theories and methods of teaching
Audience - your readers, (why does this have to be a small group? everybody can potentially encounter your piece)

Audience Addressed and Audience Invoked are two schools of thought about writing.  They shouldn't be polarized, because in the real world audiences and writers work together, nothing is written in a vaccuum. Genre affects this as well.  You're not going to rip out your favorite part in your manuscript because Joe Schmoe says so.  But you will re-write the snot out of a paper if your professor tells you to so you'll get an A.

[Also, I'm cold and hungry and I locked my keys in my room]

supplementary article - the writer as an audience

HOLY CRAP

So, this is really pretty cool. It's a testament to the connective power of the internet.
Remember when I posted my essay "Why Don't We Just Ask Them?" about chimpanzee religion and actually communicating with the animals themselves.
I just got an email from the guy who wrote the article, James B. Harrod.  He said that he was Googling his article to see what people were saying about it, and my blog, this silly little website full of my rants and awkward jokes.  He also figured out who my professor was (maybe I mentioned her in my posts?  but that sounded like wizardry) and emailed her too!  He found my email through LinkedIn, and maybe that's how he found my professor, maybe they know each other out in the non-interwebs world, I'm not sure.
I've been giggling to myself for a while now because I think this is pretty awesome.
He says that "so far it seems that one person in the world has read an commented on my papers online - and that is you".
Actually, I feel kind of sorry that the only person he's found who's made a response to this revolutionary set of papers is some college kid's 2 am paper.  Regardless, it's still pretty cool.

possible topics for the presentation (comp theory)

Constructing and Reconstructing the Self in the Writing Class
Intersection of Composition and Creative Writing Theories this is a dissertation (which I've heard are painfully long...) but bringing in creative writing ought to keep me engaged.
Mapping Pop Culture in Composition
Literacy of Sustainability (yay environmentalism!!)

so these sound pretty promising.

Presentations (Comp. Theory)

I'm interested in working with Joey Anderson.  Now I realized that I misunderstood the assignment so now I need to pick a new article.  "Inventing the University" sounds interesting, but requires further research before it becomes what I actually want to do.  "Audience" article sounds interesting too.
Maybe we could do video game literacy with specific relation to the game Skyrim.  Which would be fun becuase both of us enjoy that game.
We can work something off of a hybrid of the Bazerman and Fulkerson articles.

Guidelines for Midterm-y project

select chapter from textbook (also a folder on Sakai)
find another reading, an additional perspective, contradictory perspective
educating the class about the chapter/reading
do a class activity
(quills, Mad Libs, group discussions)
we get to pick our partners

"Coggle" response to Bazerman

Coggle is a nifty little brainstorming/flow-chart making program provided by Google.  In order to use it you need an account with Google.  It's all online and fairly easy to use.
So, I was assigned to use this tool in order to make sense of a particularly dense reading, and here it is! (thats the link to the Coggle diagram - hopefully it works).