Final Reflection Draft 2

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”  

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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.

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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.   

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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. 

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Through multimodal compositions, we explored a variety genres- we composed an audio biography piece that included a combination of words, sound, recordings, and a written script. We also composed a video storytelling project that expanded our knowledge on the ongoing refugee crisis. The video included visual images, overlapped with sound and text.  

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I think that the knowledge about discourse community was introduced through the course texts, and then reinforced with class discussions and reflections, and then practiced through the  critical thinking process during the composition of each project. 

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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.  

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