A Reflection of Unpacking Manuel’s Tavern

The significance of reflection in regards to produced work is tantamount to that of the final product itself.

On a multifaceted level, my entry for Unpacking Manuel’s served a variety of roles in which all ultimately culminated in the development of myself as a writer and producer of work. Whereas the research process opened myself up to what would have normally been a rather recondite and seemingly useless information, the revision processes developed myself as a writer to transform the pieces of cacophonous research information into a coherent, multimedia form of communication that actively reflects upon my findings and interpretation of the artifact.

In a more idiosyncratic sense, this revision process was unlike that of other “traditional” paper revision because it forced me to pay respect to the type of medium in which I published my work. Had this assignment been introduced in a classic paper format, my revision process would have looked completely differently. During my revision process, I had to delicately traverse the revision process keeping in mind of the strengths and weaknesses of this particular medium of communication. This in particular, I believe, contributed the most to the objective goals of this process in respect to myself as writer (as outlined by the learning objectives).

Rhetorical Composition comes naturally with this nature of assignment. As someone who is not familiar with maintaining blogs or online articles, I really forced myself in the perspective of a digital medium publisher. Digital Citizenship is also another learning objective that I feel is particularly relevant to this assignment. My initial and rather perfunctory (in respect to the final publication) draft, upon evaluation, lacked appropriate citations and crediting where due necessary. The online medium calls for unique methods of maintaining references, so this was a good experience for me to understand and participate in the digital medium world. Overall, I believe that this revision process was effective because it covered the learning objectives very well, improved my writing in unique terms of a online publisher, and because it gave me insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the medium.