Composing America/Gettysburg Address x 3

While reading in the book I learned a lot of random information about people and media back in Colonial America. I never knew that there were many types of the same documents; such as drafts, typographies and Calligraphies. I always thought that there would be only be one or two drafts and then a main copy. I thought it was interesting how the Declaration of Independence we look at is from August 2, 1776 rather than July 4, 1776. I thought this related to our class in a few different ways. I thought it was interesting how they used different capitalizations and things of that sort when they were working with different things. Such as today, when we type and write it different than when we text with a phone. I thought that the Gettysburg address x 3 related to the book a lot because it should the Address in the different forms. It showed it in Bullets (which I see as the draft), type (which I see as the typographic type), and the song (which I see as the final product). I know obviously that these types of media weren't invented yet but it still shows a process. I think that the song is the most effective version of these three. It just goes to show that even back in Colonial America they changed the way they talked when using different media too. I also think it relates to our class because we have to use the processes as they used to edit the Declaration of Independence (Draft, Revise, Final). Overall, this was a very interesting topic to blog on because I had no idea about a lot of this information.