Author's Statement
As you craft your author's statement, your goal is to reflect on the choices you made throughout the writing process and how they contribute to your final piece. This is an opportunity for you to dig into your thinking and also reflect upon some of the choices that might feel less successful or that you might make differently a second time around. Your final piece will be posted to your Digital Salon page. As you write, consider the following:
- Attending to Author's Craft: Use the handout from Troy Hicks that highlights different elements of author's craft you might have highlighted in designing your project. This is not exhaustive-- you won't consider ALL of the elements. Just focus on those that seemed most meaningful to your writing process.
- Elements of Multimodality: Here you might be thinking more about how you have made intentional choices related to visual (print, image, movement, etc.) and auditory (music, narration, sound effects, etc.) elements. The relationship between these elements will vary based on the medium in which you created your project. They will also depend on the overall goals and direction you had for your project.
- Navigating the Process: Finally, you might also consider the choices you made to troubleshoot or problem solve within the digital spaces you worked. How did these choices impact your final design-- either by enhancing or limiting your design process?