Fr Dec 3 -- Reflection essay due by 5pm to your Forum folder.

Your reflection essay should be a Microsoft Word document that is posted up to your Forum folder. It should be between 2-3 pages in length, should contain an introduction, main body, and conclusion, and like any formal written piece should have a strong internal structure and clear prose style. You can use first person in this reflection, but be sure to spend some time revising and polishing the prose.

What is the assignment?

 

For this assignment, you will write a reflective essay in which you evaluate your work on the research project in PWR2, most specifically your work on the hypertext. In it, you should assess the choices you made in producing the hypertext in terms of matching form and content, understanding e-rhetoric and the demands of the electronic medium, and constructing a digital argument. In short, you should look at this essay as an opportunity to make an argument about writing in hypertext, and you should use your own project as evidence in support of that argument.

 

What specific questions should we address?

At some point in your reflection, you should address the following questions:

• How do you assess your project in terms of Mary Hocks's categories of audience stance, transparency, and hybridity?
• How did producing a research hypertext resemble and differ from your experience of producing a traditional academic research paper in PWR1? Please focus on the changes you made to account for the different medium.
• What did writing in hypertext allow you to do that you could not have done in another medium/genre/or mode of writing?
• How satisfied are you with the results of your choices? What would you like to be able to do over again or spend more time on?
• This final question is of particular importance: What new goals can you now set for yourself as a writer and rhetor as a result of what you have learned/accomplished in this class?

Please link or refer to specific pages in your hypertext, specific articles or websites that were instructive in your own understanding of the project and process, and use language informed by an understanding of both rhetoric and digital communication. Don't forget the power of visual evidence as well: screenshots are quite welcome in this paper!

E-mail me, IM me, or talk to me in class if you have any questions about this assignment.