Krista liked how I set up my introduction to the project which was good. I found out I need to include my PowerPoint somewhere on the site so I need to determine that.

What I Need To Do

• Finish web essay
• Work on PowerPoint presentation & write notecards
• Fix the navigation between the Interrogate and Interface & Overview
• Incorporate PowerPoint
• Edit for grammar/punctuation

Today I began drafting my web essay using the Writer/Designer analysis questions as a guide. I decided that I was going to break up the essay into four different sections: General Overview & Rhetorical Analysis, Design Choices & Modes of Communication, Affordances & Constraints, and Presentation & Conclusion. I took all of my information that I had compiled through my exploration of Meograph and began to put it into a coherent essay form.

Why I Did It…

I think that breaking the web essay up into different pages is a good way to make it more organized and less overwhelming. I didn’t want to make a separate page for each category because I think that would make the project way to broad and all over the place, so I attempted to combine categories in a way that flows and makes sense and makes the web essay more concise. It was difficult at first to take my basic bullet point notes and turn them into an essay, but once I got into the swing of it it started to come naturally. The one thing that I was afraid of was repeating information in different sections, so I know that I will have to do some extensive editing to ensure that I don’t repeat myself or make the essay too wordy.

My Writer/Designer analysis questions

Navigational Structure: 

I spent my 50 minutes of independent work getting familiar with Meograph. I read through all of the information that the website contained and started trying to develop my own mix in order to really understand how the tool worked. I decided to make a mix about my travels with my family, using pictures from the Cascades and New Orleans. I filled in the Writer/Designer analysis questions as I was exploring the interface.

Why I Did It…

Filling out the Writer/Designer analysis questions form is going to be an extremely useful tool for organizing my web essay and ensuring that I cover all of the different aspects of analysis, including the rhetorical situation, design choices, modes of communication, and affordances and constraints. Also, playing around with creating my own mixes is important because I am actually enabling myself to analyze the tool from an actual user’s perspective.

My Writer/Designer Analysis Questions

Working on my first Mix: