involves a lot more personal style of my own and a lot fewer grandiose paragraphs with excessively big words, which was a bit of a challenge for me at the start of this course. I had never really created digital compositions before this year, and it forced me to put myself into the audience’s shoes a lot more than my own. It’s easy to find the perfect word, but then to have to stylize it and add multimedia adds a lot more pressure. My first draft of my literacy narrative looked much more like a draft of a research paper than a digital essay, and that really doesn’t make any sense for my topic. This class showed me how important it is to put your work into context, and to consider why the reader is reading, not just why I am writing. My idea of good writing has completely changed; it does not have to be flawless, it just has to be effective, and that can be accomplished in so many ways, whether it be including an external video or making the font larger or what have you. Writing is how I present my ideas, and while my favorite way to do it is still just writing black words on a white page, I’ve realized that there are a lot of other effective ways, too. It all depends on the situation, and this semester provided me with the opportunity to write in entirely new situations. I wrote to learn rather than to explain, and that really changed the way I think about writing in general. I write to explore.