This course had many goals in which it was trying to accomplish, not only in regards to each project but to increase our overall knowledge of writing. Each of these three projects helped better us as writers and creators of content. For example with project one we had to reconsider what it means to tell a story, how to look at things from a different perspective. You encouraged us to try more radical ideas such as narrate the story from the story tellers perspective not necessarily our own, I remember vividly an example of someone’s video being told from their mother’s perspective not their own. This sort of theme is prevalent throughout the entire course, this ability to look at something from a rhetorical perspective. One of the most important themes and abilities this class required was the ability to analyze something in a rhetorical fashion. In project two we had to create a web-text to hold our rhetorical analysis of our majors. This was an incredibly important part of the class as it really tested how well we were able to step back from our majors and get a different perspective. Not only this but we had to present it online in a professional and easy to navigate fashion.

The first two projects were unique in a sense because they were extending our writing experience past just writing simple papers or other generic forms of writing. This class took the writing experience further and challenged what was media can be a supplement of writing, to make it more powerful. Looking back on projects one and two the writing is the heart of the piece but it is presented in a unique medium. For example project one challenged us to look into our past and look for the right story to tell. Once we found this story it was much more about supporting the script and story with the proper digital media. It was a challenge trying to find the correct songs and pictures to properly describe what truly was a life changing conversation I had with my mother. Similarly with project two, the challenge was simply to fill out 4-5 sections as described on the rubric, but a good grade was far more than this dumbed down description. We had to learn ways to present this rhetorical analysis not only in a professional manor, but in a way that engages the audience too.

 

Project three may have been the most interesting and in my opinion my favorite piece of this class. I am by no means a photoshop or WordPress expert, but the experience of going back through my digital imprint and finding a way best to express it visually was incredibly interesting. This was in particularly cool because we got to see if our reflection matched what the reader was seeing, if they could feel the sum of that experience or not. Overall it was not only an artistic challenge but a writing challenge to see if we could support the media we had compiled to represent that subject. Overall every project helped advance my rhetorical knowledge and learn to look at life not only from my communicative lens but to try and look at it from the other side of the glass…