<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Allietypes]]></title><description><![CDATA[Accurate and Efficient Typing Solutions]]></description><link>https://www.alliegesdorf.com/my-blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:13:38 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.alliegesdorf.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Narrative Coffee: A Novel Edition to Naples Café Culture]]></title><description><![CDATA[Personal Project Autumn 2023 A creative's haven: how Narrative Coffee is writing itself into the pages of Southwest Florida's high-end coffee scene.  Vibes:			✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ Drinks:		✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ Food:			✦ ✦ ✦ Value:			✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦  Overall:		✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ My journey to Narrative started as a hunt for an inspirational sketching spot... and ended in a steadfast appreciation for botany and artisanal lattes.  Last summer, a close friend and I made a pact to live out our aesthetically artcore lives through one...]]></description><link>https://www.alliegesdorf.com/post/narrative-coffee-a-novel-edition-to-naples-caf%C3%A9-culture</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6625b61ae32724fc614260ac</guid><category><![CDATA[Other]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:54:50 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Al G</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Downfall of Theranos: A Podcast]]></title><description><![CDATA[WRD 201: Digital Writing Autumn 2024 Transcript: Stiff air. Gray, empty walls. Grating overhead lights. There’s an unspoken tenseness that wallows in the room; it’s the fear of uncertainty, of something to come. A clock ticks, someone taps their foot. Another sneezes. Footsteps echo from a corridor out of view. A phone trills behind the receptionist’s counter every few minutes, and you can’t help but startle in your seat. Your fears are unfounded… until a door swings open. Someone mumbles...]]></description><link>https://www.alliegesdorf.com/post/the-downfall-of-theranos-a-podcast</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad2deec0309c5e579e76cc8</guid><category><![CDATA[Multimodal Writing]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 02:42:51 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Al G</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[“Drag Path” Instagram Reel Pitch Deck]]></title><description><![CDATA[WRD 309: Persuasion in the Age of TikTok Spring 2026 Instagram Reel: Pitch Deck: Connections to the Social Contract Upon the assignment of our final project, I knew I wanted to post a “Drag Path” reel. “Drag Path”, referring to the song by Twenty One Pilots, is a trend on Instagram primed for social commentary. Since its popularization, the song has been used in two primary ways: to offer digital safe spaces to grieve loss, and to promote social, usually conservationist, change. “Drag Path”...]]></description><link>https://www.alliegesdorf.com/post/drag-path-instagram-reel-pitch-deck</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad2dbd863432f5a5f9d1880</guid><category><![CDATA[Multimodal Writing]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 02:29:30 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Al G</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scrapbooking for the Mind: Interactive Digital Longform]]></title><description><![CDATA[WRD 201: Digital Writing Autumn 2024 Note: This content is best viewed in your browser. Access article here. Website Preview:]]></description><link>https://www.alliegesdorf.com/post/scrapbooking-for-the-mind-interactive-digital-longform</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad2d4ff0309c5e579e75761</guid><category><![CDATA[Multimodal Writing]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 01:55:55 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Al G</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building an AI in 10 Easy Steps – Design an Annotated Bibliography Generator Custom GPT]]></title><description><![CDATA[WRD 204: Technical Writing Winter 2025 Note: The article was posted to instructables.com and has generated 400+ views. The article can be viewed on its original platform here. Custom GPTs are AI chatbots programmed to complete highly specified tasks—from citing sources to generating code. Where ChatGPT can complete an infinite number of tasks with moderate efficiency, Custom GPTs work to complete a single, complex task with high efficiency. This is done through prompt engineering, where GPT...]]></description><link>https://www.alliegesdorf.com/post/building-an-ai-in-10-easy-steps-design-an-annotated-bibliography-generator-custom-gpt</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad2b61363432f5a5f9cc7d6</guid><category><![CDATA[Technical Writing]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:54:13 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Al G</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The “iPad Kid” Epidemic: An Ethical Analysis of AI “Brain-Rot” and Content Farms]]></title><description><![CDATA[CSC 208: Ethics in Technology Winter 2025 Introduction Gone are the mornings hunkered in front of a tube TV for Sunday cartoons, or the sick days curled in bed watching the Disney Channel greats; kids’ media is a dead art. What remains is a boneyard of regurgitated content cud and an endless horizon of pure, unfiltered slop; AI slop, to be exact, derived from the content farms that endlessly churn episodes of shows with dead-eyed characters and untraceable plots. The zombies that feed off the...]]></description><link>https://www.alliegesdorf.com/post/the-ipad-kid-epidemic-an-ethical-analysis-of-ai-brain-rot-content-farms</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad271074837cdef095cb3a9</guid><category><![CDATA[Academic Writing]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:46:42 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Al G</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Funder Proposal for Culture Canvas Cafe]]></title><description><![CDATA[WRD 321: Grant and Proposal Writing Autumn 2026 MEMORANDUM TO: Rebekah Hall, Director of Culture Canvas Cafe FROM: Allie Gesdorf, Grant and Proposal Writing Student Assistant  DATE: October 6th, 2026  SUBJECT: Culture Canvas Cafe Funder Proposal Funder research yielded that The Lumpkin Family Foundation’s Land, Health, Community-Chicago Grant Program aligns with the priorities of UECA’s Culture Canvas Cafe Chicago, based on shared mission statements and project goals. Details on the Lumpkin...]]></description><link>https://www.alliegesdorf.com/post/culture-canvas-cafe-funder-proposal</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad26fb90309c5e579e68ac7</guid><category><![CDATA[Technical Writing]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:41:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Al G</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Planet Rhetoric: A Speech]]></title><description><![CDATA[WRD 201: Style for Writers Spring 2025 As a combined Computer Science + Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse major, it’s hard not to notice how different my classes are. Most of us Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse majors struggle to imagine a class that isn’t discussion-based and participation-heavy. So, it’s understandably jarring for me when I step back into the world of Computer Science, where hands are only raised in dire circumstances and many students flat-out refuse to attend lectures if...]]></description><link>https://www.alliegesdorf.com/post/planet-rhetoric-a-speech</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a278b5a9e0d973e8232973f</guid><category><![CDATA[Other]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:41:59 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Al G</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feedback Report on La Casa Norte’s Instagram Presence: An Assessment of Engagement Through Brand Presentation]]></title><description><![CDATA[WRD 204: Technical Writing Winter 2025 Role: Editorial Lead &#38; Client-Facing Researcher Executive Summary Purpose The purpose of this report was to evaluate and provide feedback on La Casa Norte’s Instagram presence, focusing on navigability, credibility, and engagement. We... Procedure Test five random students at DePaul University’s Brownstone’s Café, between the 	ages of 18 and 28. Upon completion of five tasks, prompt users to share their opinions on La Casa 	Norte’s trustworthiness and...]]></description><link>https://www.alliegesdorf.com/post/feedback-report-on-la-casa-norte-s-instagram-presence-an-assessment-of-engagement-through-brand-pres</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a27804c750b8b39abbf3a71</guid><category><![CDATA[Technical Writing]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:54:58 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Al G</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Chronology of the Gambler’s Fallacy in Localized Japanese Gachapon, Popmart Blind Boxes, and Mobile F2P Gacha Games]]></title><description><![CDATA[HON 203: Seminar in Multiculturalism (Japanese Popular Culture in Global Contexts) Spring 2026 	 When I was 10 and visiting the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas, I stepped into a casino for the first time, intending to cross through with my parents to make it to a dinner reservation. I was ill-prepared for the sight that would greet me: thick swolls of cigarette smoke hung in stilled air, fixed from all the lingering tuxedos that oggled over spinning, whirring, click-clacking machines. Fingers...]]></description><link>https://www.alliegesdorf.com/post/a-chronology-of-the-gambler-s-fallacy-in-localized-japanese-gachapon-popmart-blindboxes-and-mobile</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a277b9d2649fe9f0131aa17</guid><category><![CDATA[Academic Writing]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:37:27 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Al G</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Comparative Analysis of Discord and Online Roleplay Forums: Erasure, Discrimination, and Stereotyping]]></title><description><![CDATA[WRD 210: Cultural Rhetorics Winter 2025 	I: Introduction 	In 2017, a handful of authors and I joined into an empty discord. Over the next seven years, we would cultivate this space into Falling Stones: a vibrant, diverse culture of textual role-players (more than twenty of us as of current) coming together to write stories. Role-player, as a term, defines someone who engages in the act of roleplay, either vocally (i.e. Dungeons and Dragons) or textually (i.e. TTRPGs). Much like how children...]]></description><link>https://www.alliegesdorf.com/post/a-comparative-analysis-of-discord-and-online-roleplay-forums-erasure-discrimination-and-stereotyp</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2779b67af0f7335699a15c</guid><category><![CDATA[Academic Writing]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:29:31 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Al G</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amadeus: A Crescendo into High-Cinema]]></title><description><![CDATA[WRD 201: Style for Writers Spring, 2025 	 	This ornately gold-crested fictional biopic dives into the relationship between Salieri and Mozart, two clashing composers in the heart of Vienna, Italy. Directed by Czechoslovakian director and screenwriter Miloš Forman, Amadeus encapsulates nothing short of the meticulously organized chaos of a baroque ballroom. Pink wigs bounce about a crowd, donned by whimsical unicorn headdresses that barely shield this movie’s gnashing motif of greed and dark...]]></description><link>https://www.alliegesdorf.com/post/amadeus-a-film-review</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2770e12649fe9f0131941a</guid><category><![CDATA[Other]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:04:55 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Al G</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>