Writing Gateway Course Projects
Why I Write
Repurposing
Remediation
The final project of the Gateway course forced me to take the repurposed piece and change its medium, effectively changing all conventions that would be expected from it. I remediated the blog post into an infographic poster, one intended to visualize how the 2013 Grammy Awards brings to light a recurring problem in a by-the-numbers style. The most challenging of the three pieces to create, it tested my skills as a writer to be able to make the correct decisions for the rhetorical situation in order to best reach my audience. I walk through this process on the piece's page, and how the deicsions I made were influenced. Click the image on the left to read more.
The next assignment of the Gateway course required choosing a piece of writing I had written and repurposing it for a different rhetorical situation while retaining its argumentative integrity. I chose an excerpt from a Grammy preview article for my high school newspaper in 2013. I then repurposed it as a blog post looking into the inequalities of award recognition with attention to race, and what this says about the state of the music industry. It reads as a lighthearted yet poingant exploration into the role race plays in what is reognized as superlative in music. Click the image on the left to read more.
The first assignment of the Gateway Course tasked me with determining my motivation as a writer. What I found is that I was not the writer that I wanted to be. I certainly wasn't the writer that I wanted to become. Instead, I wanted to be the writer that I was. This essay looks back out how I lost the flare that I used to exhibit as a writer, and how I have turned to comedy as a remedy. The piece serves as an introspective exploration into how conventions of comedy will not only allow me to be more entertaining for my readers, but also bring me the satisfaction as a writer that I am reaching my potential. Click the image on the left to read more.