Audience: the assembled spectators or listeners at a public event. Audience can also be defined as a formal interview with a person of authority. An example of audience might a group of individuals hearing the composer’s words like a crowd of fans at a baseball game or a crowd of people listening to a presidential candidate at a rally, online, or on television. When designing  text, the audience impacts how the text is delivered, designed, what tone/style it takes on, what genre it works within, etc.

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Assemblage: The process of joining and putting things together. Gathering all the parts that make up your composition and making it into the final piece. Examples: a diary is an assemblage of one's life experiences and thoughts. A book is an assemblage of pages, chapters, words, and ideas that are (usually) literally bound together. Other examples include anthologies, mix tapes, pinterest, instagram, facebook, book of poems with specific theme and different authors. Assemblage matters with regards to the text's meaning because it combines disparate ideas in a way that is accessible to various people. With the book example, if the pages are out of order than the meaning of the text is lost upon the reader. In that regard proper assemblage can make or break the meaning of the text. 

 

Circulation: how text moves through time and space. An example of circulation is how tweets on Twitter can be shared online. A tweet begins to circulate once the creator posts it, then it is open to the mass public to be shared. The circulation occurs when the tweet is quote tweeted, replied to, or retweeted. The tweet then is "shared" as it appears on a growing number of people's timelines. Text is used to convey ideas and messages from one mind to another. Circulation is required to share your intended meaning with other minds. The meaning of text on Twitter is different than something circulating on Linkedin. However, regardless of the context, circulation is necessary to transfer the given message. 

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Design: Design includes the style of writing, the layout, the colors and themes used to unite the pieces of a text, and the materials and technologies being used. When designed well, the pieces of a text are intentionally created to come together to form a bigger picture for a specific use or to evoke a thought process. Design responds to audience and can also be used to create an aesthetic effect. Examples include architectural designs, website designs, layouts, Tumblr, fashion designs, interior designs. The type of text you work with and the audience you compose for can affect what kind of design you choose because some designs have different constraints. You don't want to take away from the text but instead, add to.

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Exigency: A state of urgency or emergency which calls an individual to respond. An example of exigency would be a student who struggles with procrastination. Let's imagine said student has a project due in a few days or even at 12am, and the time is 10pm. This student would portray exigency because now they feel the need to actually get up and do this task because this would result in them passing the class and ultimately graduating.This term matters with regards to texts because, all texts, inherently, will always go through some form of exigency. They will always have some form of questions, situations, or have something in them that makes them spring up into action when a situation requires it.

Genre: a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter (Websters). Examples can include different types of novels/movies like Romance,Comedy, Science Fiction, Horror, etc. but also different forms of communication like writing a letter, sending an email, tweeting, giving a speech, etc. Genre changes the style and allows the audience to watch and read what they are interested in. It also allows the author to target materials to a specific audience.

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Material: What you are working with, what you can use when composing a text. If we were speaking of writing it would be what you’re writing on (your laptop, notebook, cell phone), what you are writing with (pen, pencil, keyboard) and where you are writing. Without materials there would be nothing. Materials are tools that we use to help create text and, therefore, affect its design and effectiveness.

 

Network: "Group or system of interconnected people or things." An example includes any form of social media where one individual becomes digitally linked to others but also any grouping of people whether it be by education, ethnicity, gender, age, etc.(Facebook, LinkedIn, canvas, FSU's student body). It might also speak to the intertextual relationship texts have (for instance, all of the different texts surrounding the Kim/Taylor feud). Meaning can be put into better context when regarding network. Being aware of the different perspectives and/or capabilities of a specific network can alter several parts of a text including tone, medium, and setting.