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+<!--Title: Digital Reading Journal-->
+<h2>Introduction</h2>
+<p>The Digital Reading Journal focuses on the <a href="https://sites.
+gatech.edu/wcppolicies/engl-1101-and-1102-common-policies-fall-2020">
+Process Outcome</a> of the ENGL 1101/1102 program.
+During the semester, I responded to various prompts connecting course
+material to contemporary issues and other media.
+Through these posts, I learned that I can tell that I need to understand
+the material better if my sentences become long and unwieldy.
+This journal helped me improve my writing process because transcribing
+my thoughts on course content required me to sufficiently support those
+ideas, and when my support was thin, I stretched out the ideas.
+This was exacerbated by several rounds of information-adding revisions.
+I am including an early post that shows my least developed writing and a
+later post with my best writing.
+These two posts are my "process documents" for this assignment because
+they show how, as I understood the material better, I was better able to
+avoid rambling sentences devoid of content.
+The supplemental imagery also changed between these two posts.
+In the first, it is pretty generic and reiterates the more vague points
+I'm making, but in the second, my images are in fact directly relevant
+to the content and increase the value of the article more than just
+visually.
+</p>
+<h3>Digital Reading Journal</h3>
+<iframe src="https://classblogs20.iac.gatech.edu/holdenr/" style="width:
+100%; height: 60vh" ></iframe>
+<dl>
+    <dt>Goals</dt>
+        <dd>This assignment has two goals: the first is to assess and
+        improve understanding of course material, and the second is to
+        develop a writing process and reflection skills.
+        The assignment has asked me to relate the course material to
+        other things I read, watch on television, or see on the
+        Internet, in various weekly prompts.
+        These prompts ask me to develop a relationship with medicine and
+        the normative idea of health, so that I can develop ideas about
+        this social construction outside of course material in popular
+        culture.
+        Developing a writing process is a major goal of the program, and
+        this reading journal represents a more sustainable writing
+        process.
+        I can transfer the practice to other projects, writing out my
+        ideas semi-formally before I create the final work.
+        I will use this strategy when I'm working on larger
+        communication projects to think out the connections with
+        other cultural or analytic ideas. </dd>
+    <dt>Purpose</dt>
+        <dd>The reading journal is a blog organized into weekly prompts
+        about class readings and the course theme of health.
+        The prompts are open-ended questions about course material like
+        "...explain how <em>The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
+        Hyde</em> represents the moral dimensions of health..." that
+        require critical thinking and assess understanding of the
+        material (as a replacement this year for in-class discussions).
+        This writing process also creates value as a reference: in my
+        essays and in the final video, I reused ideas, quotes, themes,
+        and concepts that I've developed in my journal entries.
+        These ideas are particularly focused on popular culture and
+        modern issues because "health" is a general lens for social
+        issues and language.
+        <!-- 50 more -->
+        </dd>
+    <dt>Audience</dt>
+        <dd>
+        This is a personal journal, so I am the main target for my
+        writing.
+        Formal writing is, however, still required because writing out
+        ideas where they make a cohesive argument or at least are
+        individually valid.
+        Proper argumentation or presentation enhances its value as a
+        reference because I can directly reuse the analysis I've already
+        done.
+        Because of the fact that strong rhetoric can make it easier to
+        develop strong rhetoric in the future, I have written in this
+        journal to an imagined academic audience familiar with the
+        course material.
+        I also see value in practicing argument, particularly with
+        health and the standard course material being reused in the
+        Reading Response Essay artifact and the theme in the Medical
+        Object Video.
+        That's why I try to develop a convincing case in each post
+        rather than rattle off a list of ideas for future use (which
+        would make for less interesting posts).
+        </dd>
+    <dt>Design for Medium</dt>
+        <dd> There are three ways in which this medium is distinct from
+        other written media, like an essay or an article.
+        Firstly, I control the surrounding design and theming: Wordpress
+        is a great tool for background visual design.
+        I chose to go with black-on-white text and a pretty standard
+        theme because I don't want the colors to get in the way.
+        I also didn't use anything other than the plain blog as the main
+        page because the project is for personal use.
+        Secondly, the blogposts are much more visual than a standard
+        essay.
+        I reused (with proper credit, of course) Creative Commons
+        licensed photos from Flickr and Wikimedia to enhance my writing
+        and interject other points or have a visual reference for the
+        entry.
+        Lastly, the web gives different techniques for a website to be
+        passable, like alt text for accessibility and the ability to
+        link out to sources (a boon to the quality of each entry). </dd>
+    <dt>Revision</dt>
+        <dd>
+        Each post is a process document, so they are meant to have
+        developing ideas, but there are still improvements I could make
+        to the posts and the design.
+        Firstly, I think I underused the electronic medium.
+        While I included some photos in each post, they didn't always
+        develop my ideas further, and I could have looked further than
+        just highlighting the points I had already made.
+        Three other electronic-specific tools I underused were links to
+        other sources and bold and italics.
+        Both of these would increase my rhetorical strength by
+        highlighting a central theme.
+        For an academic reader of the arguments I'm putting forth,
+        emphasizing the thesis or key terms might give them a clearer
+        understanding of what I'm presenting, and a better resource to
+        review for myself.
+        </dd>
+</dl>
+<h2>Process documents</h2>
+<h3>Earlier Post</h3>
+<p>This earlier post shows how I used very long sentences to deflect the
+need for clear, substantive arguments and used similarly insubstantive
+image supplements.</p>
+<iframe src="https://classblogs20.iac.gatech.edu/holdenr/2020/08/21/
+hello-world/" style="width: 100%; height: 60vh"></iframe>
+<h3>Later Post</h3>
+<p>In this later post, my writing has grown and the text and images are
+coherent and build on a single argument, and because of that, my
+sentences are shorter and more focused.</p>
+<iframe src="https://classblogs20.iac.gatech.edu/holdenr/2020/10/23/
+hela-and-henrietta/" style="width: 100%; height: 60vh" >
+</iframe>