Multimodal reflection

When I look back on my multimodal and microtheme project, I can honestly say that I grew so much bigger and better as a writer and creative mind. This was easily one of the biggest challenges I have ever faced in school. It may be that this was so challenging for me because taking my ideas and condensing one topic into one paper and sticking to that theme is SO hard. Sure, I made some rookie mistakes, but is happens. In my multimodal, I forgot to add a quick credit scroll for the free music available on YouTube Editor, so I will give credit to that generous artist now. The audio was called "In Albany New York" by The 126ers (matched my video so well!). While taking a gander at the hollistic rubric in this course, I came across four major components within it. These major components are rhetorical knowledge, critical and creative thinking, genre knowledge, and mechanical knowledge. In this project, I feel like all of these areas were tested; but the one that stuck out to me the most was the rhetorical knowledge. I say this because in order to practice your rhetorical knowledge, you have to come up with an idea, organize it, and refine it down into a legible thought. For the microtheme and multimodal, we had to come up with a question and then try to give precise consequences for it without making completely worldly claims. This required a tremendous amount of work for me because I wanted to go off on a tangent really bad. To completely honest, I got frustrated that I couldn't just say what I wanted the way I wanted. I guess this ties into the component of mechanical knowledge because I needed to try and teach myself how to improve my writing without completely relying on Dr. Kyburz for help. She guided me along the way to get me where I wanted to be, but at the same time she was there to provide insight and let me spread my own wings to write the way I wanted (with some fine tuning). I could probably go on forever about how this project bettered me as a person and writer, but I would end up writing a book rather than a blog post. I just want to thank Dr. Kyburz for helping me with this, I couldn't have done it without her help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02dO-AjOnUI