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I think that I have grown as a writer this year. The main projects have given me time to learn about and focus on specific topics and really learn a lot about each one. For example with our first hyperessay I was able to focus on the digital divide and how the Internet has affected Native American tribes. Also for our autoethnography documentaries I was able to go out into the Emory community and interview girls who write for a fashion blog. This activity was extremely personal and was a great hands-on learning experience for me. My interviews with these girls also prompted me to inquire more about fashion media and how it affects our society as a whole. After much research, I decided to construct my activism website around fashion media and how our society is combating its negative effects. We have also been able to make our work approachable by many different types of people. By posting writing to our blogs or on our websites we know that there are so many people who are able to access it. Furthermore, our writing is not just seen by our professor but by a wide array of people who access the Internet. I have also been able to use different formats for my writing. For example the way I constructed my first hyperessay website took a completely different type of technique than the one I used to construct my autoethnogrpahy documentary. Our class has also been able to write on many different levels of formality. We have written blogpost, constructed websites, as well as have created film documentaries. For the most part, our blog posts are less formal than our websites and our websites have less formality than a typical research paper. Furthermore, with the wide range of writing we have done in our class we have been exposed to different styles of formality with our writing. I personally have also learned how writing is a multi-step process, that will take more than one day. By posting all of my work electronically I feel that I have been given the opportunity and freedom to go back and edit my work until I feel that it is completely finished. All in all I feel that the work I have done in this class has provided me with a beneficial and effective learning experience in the art of writing.
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