I believe that there is a higher level of motivation when doing multi-modal projects. The multi-modal project that we did in this class was my first experience with multi-modal projects, and it terrified me. I was motivated to do better because the idea of using more than one mode appealed to my creative side. I am okay with doing essays, years of writing has made me immune to it. You learn the formula for how to create the "perfect" essay in high school, and it becomes a cookie cutter process. Having the option to embrace as many different aspects and be as creative as possible in an assignment is almost a challenge for the student: show me what you can do, not what you've been taught. Try something new, be different. The most successful genres and modes I've seen in the projects would be the prezi presentations and the creation of recipes and wordles. The most unsuccessful I've seen were the six word stories (but I could be biased, I like longer stories as a creative writer). I think the six word stories were successful in some cases, in small uses, but overall I think the use of other genres were more interesting and beneficial. My role as a composer in the multi-modal project is to take different modes and genres and compile them into an interesting project. I have to make the different components work together to form a new, bigger truth and have the viewer understand the parts separately as well as together. The purpose should bring the author and the audience together. The author needs to understand the audience, and the aud
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