Post 1: Ideas
Hi everyone! I don't feel as though I have any particularly solid ideas yet to use for research about technical communication. I'm interested in punctuation, so if I can narrow that down into something more specific it would probably be the most motivating topic for me. I think that studying specific punctuation marks and their frequency of use for stylization versus for clarity in grammatical structure would be fun. Though, it also seems as though it would require very broad categories of texts in terms of data points. I also had a thought about citation styles and how their use emphasizes and reinforces different priorities within their fields of use. Honestly I sort of feel like I'm way off base with both of my ideas so I'm hoping that next class will be particularly illuminating for me.