In my last post, I talked about the role of multimodal composition in the writing classroom. Since then I have developed my own short film on sexism related to the Santa Clara University campus.
In order to clearly share my information, I decided to break the film up into three predominate sections. First, sexism occurring around our country and in our world shown through a series of tweets. Second, I wanted to acknowledge that sexism does not only exist around the country or the world, but also on our own SCU campus. Finally, I created a section featuring examples of what we can do to change the sexism faced on our campus today. Check out my creation below:
From the very first assignment in this class on archival research, I have been focusing on one predominate theme: sexism on college campuses. My archival research project was based on a newsletter reflecting on the addition of women to the Santa Clara University (SCU) campus 25 years after the fact. Since then I have completed a number of projects related to the same topic. Each assignment was some how rooted in sexism and specifically sexism on the SCU campus.
https://www.emaze.com/@AIQOTIRQ/SEXISM
In addition to the academic writing, my blog has also featured several posts related to sexism. In a way, my blog writing also helped to further my academic writing not only through process reflection, but also in idea development and improved writing technique. In class readings offered many suggestions on how to frame researched arguments. From the readings we were offered a chance to reflect and adapt the information we read into something tangible for academic writing through blog responses.
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Paramount to academic and blog writing, we were given an opportunity to share our message through a new medium of our choice. As shown above, my chosen multimodal presentation was a short film on the reality of sexism in the world and the SCU community. Again, this step builds upon and works with the other two in that it took content from the other two mediums and transformed it into something more.
In multimodal composition you are able to cater to a sp
ecific audience in a way that resonates most with them. In academic writing and even blog writing there is a sort of disconnect between the writer and the audience, where as in multimo
dal composition you are able to communicate in a less formal way while still communicating an important message.
Academic writing, blog response, and multimodal composition have all woven together over the course of the last 10 weeks. From this experience I have learned about myself, my writing, and my ability to communicate through different mediums. I am proud of what I have accomplished to date and look forward to seeing how what I have learned from this class reveals itself in the future.
