Learning Outcome: Multiple Ways of Writing

Artifacts

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​To start off, if I were to put this outcome in my own words, it would be something along the lines of: "Can you go beyond just the English language in your writing and use it to make your work better". It something that even if we don't do all the time, I think we can say we experience all the time. We don't just get our information through writing, we get it through videos, music, pictures, colors, art style, tone of voice, etc. Now, I will say that for the majority of my work in this course, I did not incorporate almost anything like this, and most of my work was just pure writing. This is just because I did not need to or couldn't for most assignments. However, one place I did do it was in one in my slide presentation. In this assignment I was basically given free reign for how I wanted the presentation to look. So, naturally I wanted it to fit the theme of the NFL, along with making sure my audience knew I wasn't just writing about online comments but about football. If you look at the presentation you can see I did multiple things to accomplish this. I used backgrounds of football, but lots of the text in red and blue (NFL colors), put in some pictures of Jayden Daniels and Caleb Willaims to connect what I was talking about, and overall made the presentation look less purely academic and more thematic. Looking back, I did all of that almost not thinking about it, because I understood at some level what would better get my message across. I mean it made my work more engaging and consequently informing, but I think it goes even beyond that. For example, let's say a member of my audience did not understand what I meant by draft prospect, then here are two pictures of very famous former draft prospect that you have probably at least heard of even if you don't follow football. Let's say they didn't understand what threads I was looking into, for that there's a screenshot of a thread I took a lot of my work from. I could have described the thread in that situation, but just putting a picture made it much easier. I don't think this is anything I learned recently either, as shown by my work in writing group three. Early in this course I was still able to break down the multimodality I had experienced and put forth ideas of how I could use it myself in other works. I obviously wasn't using multimodality when I wrote that, but I don't think I was saying anything that was super new to me. I think that is because, even through this course, I have kind of stayed the same in regard to this learning outcome. This likely because, prior to this year, I had essentially worked with this outcome tons before. I could bring up countless works I have done in the past that used something like multimodality, even if I didn't have a word for it. I may not have needed to do a whole lot related to this outcome in this course, but I think I have in the past and probably could have if I had been asked to more.

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