Final Reflection Draft 1

Use the following questions as a guide for your critical reflection, and be sure to ground your thinking in the learning outcomes for this class:

What was your purpose for this multimodal text? What rhetorical considerations did you have to take up in writing about this issue/topic for a public audience? How did your targeted audience influence your writing choices about argument, evidence, style, etc.?

What theoretical and/or ethical consideration of writing for public audiences guided your work in this project? How?

What affordances are offered by the aural, visual, spatial, and gestural modes involved in your video? 

Each affordance provided its own “appeal” that was designed to strike the audience in a specific manner. Sometimes an affordance attuned to multiple attractions which made for a more dynamic and more successful composition. The image of a visual affordance helped to “put a face to the name”  

Now that you’ve completed your video, how do you feel about your choice of mode(s)? Do they allow you to achieve what you wanted to with the piece? Why or why not?

I am happy with the use of mode. In a project that is based on sharing someones experience and story, an interview visualized in the form of a video is helpful.

What was your writing/composing process like? How did you develop your overarching purpose for the video? How did you go about conducting research, creating and collecting assets for use in the piece?

What did you learn through this process that you want to take away with you for future writing situations? What considerations of multimodal writing and/or writing for public audiences do you want to remember for the future? Why? How did your work on this project/in this class help you develop your capacity to be a critical consumer—and producer—of public, multimodal discourse?

 

Outcomes & Assessment

The final reflection is worth 15% of your final grade. Over the process of composing and revising your reflection you should be able to show progress toward achieving these course outcomes (which are also the basis for assessment):

Rhetorical Knowledge: Demonstrate awareness of and responsiveness to audience, context, and purpose.

The multimodal components of each project required a different type of consideration when thinking about audience. The process of composing and revising, especially in the Community Storytelling project, was critical to the clarity of the material.   

Subject-Matter Knowledge: Engage the rich, complex subject matter you have chosen, conducting appropriate research to compose an informed and thoughtful essay for your chosen audience.

The background research needed before the interview process was crucial, because it aided in having respect for a culture, as well as provide information to generate useful questions for the interview.

Genre Knowledge: Employ genre conventions to serve your purpose(s).

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Discourse Community Knowledge: Demonstrate attention to and successful execution of the conventions specific to the discourse community, including organization, content, presentation, formatting, and stylistic/syntactical choices.

Meta-cognitive Knowledge: Evidence thoughtful, reflective practices throughout each step of your compositional process, and discuss those practices in your written reflection.

Each assignment took part in a series of steps (or revisions)- after posting each “draft” of a project, (individually as well as in our groups), we thought and rethought/ critiqued our own work in order to better/ push the project to the next “step.” After working through the process several times, were we able to see progress.  

Writing Process Knowledge: Evidence significant recursive writing/thinking by developing, exploring, interpreting, evaluating, and revising content, style, and design throughout the process of composing your audio essay.

Articulate and apply theoretical, rhetorical, and ethical considerations pertinent to writing in public spheres.

Adhere to appropriate citation conventions, fair use, and copyright for primary and secondary sources from a variety of media platforms.