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Notes for 300HundredWordsInPrint Part II.* Why did you choose to use the paper you did? I wanted it to look like comic book pages and used the printer to do the panels, so I used regular paper.
* Why did you use the margins you did? I tried to use as much of the page as possible, so the margins are very small.
* Where did you put your name? why? My name appears in the title because it seemed to fit. I also put my name at the end for "turn in" purposes.
* Why did you break your paragraphs as you did? I did not use paragraphs in the traditional sense. I guess each box could in normal prose be considered a paragraph though.
* Why did you show paragraphs as you did?
* Why did you choose the color(s) you used?
I mainly used black to imitate what one might see in a comic book. I used other colors to distinguish from the text. The colors I chose were from personal preference. I don't like primary/bold colors.
* Why did you (or why did you not) use straight lines? I used straight lines becaus I was imitating a comic.
* Why did you (or why did you not) use blocks of text? Same.
* Why did you (or why did you not) use diagrams, pictures, illustrations? Same
* Why did you (or why did you not) do what whatever else you did? Then, drawing on the the list you worked with above, address the following questions in enough detail that you can discuss them thoroughly in class on Tuesday. 1. What did you do differently this time? What resources did you use to create meaning - in addition to the words themselves - this time - and to what end did you use them? By resources I mean color, size, layout, texture, kind of paper, other... When I decided to do this assignment in a comic strip form, I thought it would lend itself nicely to illustrating my interests listed in the first assignment. So I picked details from the first introduction and mapped out what I wanted to say about them and created panels using MS Word.
2. If you changed the prose - the words and sentences, word choice, sentence construction, paragraphs, paragraphing - how did you change them? Why? To what end? I changed the prose to shorter, more direct statements. The original introduction would not translate well in crayon.
3. Did you bump into any rhetorical difficulties? For instance, how did you handle maintaining your credibility? Did you change the level of formality? Anything else? I don't think crayons lends itself to credibility. Upon first glance this looks like an assignment a grade student school would turn in. Crayons get dull easily so the print is inconsistent and sloppy. Thus I did change the formality and dropped a lot of the more complicated content from the first introduction.
I guess I didn't feel safe in trying to communicate in my typical prose style, or using sarcasm or parody because I didn't think it would translate in crayon, or in the spaces alloted.
4. Did you bump into any difficulties or limits handling the media you used? These might be difficulties in drawing, or in planning the work on the page, or in finding materials.... I used images so I didn't rely on free-hand drawings, except for 1. I did have to sketch out what I wanted to say, in order to plan the panel sizes. My biggest problem was using the crayons, inconsistent print and bad handwriting.
5. Anything in the work that you don't feel in control of? Didn't know how to do? Wish you could do better? Because I was handwriting this in crayons I did not feel in control of how the printing would look.
Also, I would have liked to try to experiment with writing this in a different point of view.
6. How successful were you with this second work? That is, how well does this work communicate what was intended, that is, how well does it introduce you, to your colleagues, in a university-level course? Where does it succeed, and where not? I think that choosing things that interest me (ie. Books, movies and music) and using those images from the internet was a good way of letting people know a little about me.
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