Your last assignment for this course is to post a digital version of either your first or second essay to Medium.com. My principle aim in asking you to do so is to prompt you to think about what it means to work as a writer in a digital age—specifically, about the differing affordances of the page and the screen. I thus encourage you to make as active and thoughtful use of the various affordances of the web as you can in creating a new version of your piece for Medium.
But I have other reasons, too, for assigning this work. I also want you to have one more chance to rethink and develop your writing. You should thus feel free to continue to do research into your topic, to add to what you’ve written, and to rework and refine your prose. I will be eager, that is, to see changes to the substance as well as the presentation of your piece. If the onscreen version of your piece is stronger than its paper version, then I will raise your grade for it.
Posting your work to Medium also makes it easier for us to share and celebrate what you’ve done. Please email me the link to your essay on Medium by 12:30 pm on Monday, 12/02. I’ll post a list of those links to this site. In class, we will then create an “arcade” that will allow you to walk around and see what the other writers in the class have done.
Good luck! I look forward to seeing what you with your piece!
E110: Seminar in Composition 