Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Reflection Blog Assignment- Hypertext Essay

When composing this particular assignment, I had to take many aspects of writing into consideration such as my audience, purpose, design, organization, presentation and personal gain. The audience I was working to appeal to was a group of college level English students. My purpose in targeting this particular group was to provide a better understanding about technological communication and its effects on the people around them. Furthermore, by using a hypertext essay format, besides it being assigned, I hoped to capture my audience’s attention with interactive information and professional presentation. Hypertext essays are very common modes of information in modern day society and help students to access a lot of information in a manner that is less intimidating than a large word document would be. The organizational process I targeted was a summary of the original article, the article itself, three responses containing my personal view on the article in question, and a conclusion involving a personally developed challenge relevant to the topic at hand. I am very proud of the fact that I was able to create this presentation with as little computer knowledge as I currently possess. I am particularly proud of my responses and conclusion due to the fact that I worked very hard to explore as many aspects of communication over technological media as possible. I feel by completing this assignment, I have significantly advanced my knowledge concerning computers and the functions available today. Additionally, I have learned how to create very relevant responses to the subject matter as to not confuse the reader when they are clicking links. Finally, my selection of the specific resources and research I used was based on the popular sites of today and how they contribute to our personal interactions with others. This assignment helped me to see the benefit technology can provide for students and members of society today.

1 comment:

Jim Everaert said...

Charlotte,

You are an excellent writer. I truly enjoyed reading this! you covered everything that you were supposed in this reflection. I like how you talk about the format that you used, that this is the way that modern hypertext articles are modeled by. Also you writing is fundamentally sound and this is great formal writing. I am going to your Purdue space now to check out your project!