Week 12

Finishing up the Verification quest was an interesting process. I know at one point in this class it was mentioned how most writing styles are still oriented for the purpose of printing, but that is shifting with certain styles of digital writing. As we prepared for the Celebration of Student Writing, I realized how true that has become for my own writing in this class. Typically, the process for a presentation is easy enough when the way we write research papers is still meant for printing. You can take your piece, create a physical copy, and format it for trifolds, posters, or whatever media works best. Digital writing on the other hand…

I attempted to physically format my piece onto a trifold with mostly success, after about four hours of messing around with glue and many attempts at puzzle piecing everything together. I began to reevaluate the ways I present things. Even having grown up in an age of tech, I feel bound by a physical representation of the work I create. I want to see it and hold it myself; I want others to do the same, and I want to be able to talk about it with them.

Digital media is by no means a limiting thing, in fact there is freedom in creating something that exists online, even if that is the only format it exists in. As much fun as having a physical copy of my work can be, it is by no means the only thing that defines what my work actually is. We live in an increasingly digital world, and with the rise of AI, it is up to us to meet the new standards being set.

I really loved my Verification Quest project, and I enjoyed digging into a topic I am really interested in. This topic in particular was interesting to bring to a digital media, because it is inherently real, at least in the sense that agriculture is the physical basis for the world and society we live in now and have lived in for centuries. There is so much benefit from making a topic like that accessible in a space online. Yes, obviously, discussions about that topic are happening online, but it is happening a lot in the ‘untrustworthy claim’ way and less in the ‘real actual facts are accessible to the public’ kind of way.

I think the end of this project made me appreciate a few things: 1) that my work can remain digital and that is okay and 2) sometimes PowerPoint is a better option than a trifold.