wrote versions of everything

cover essay is very partial (needs 1200 words) and the reading response
essays are limited in the analysis

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diff --git a/markley/portfolio/01_cover_essay.html b/markley/portfolio/01_cover_essay.html
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+<!--Title: Cover Essay-->
+<p>This English 1102 course asked students to consider how health functions
+as a social ideal and regulates our actions based on the norms,
+attitudes, and ideas that prevail in our culture.
+In addition to this course-specific theme, there is a <a href="https://
+sites.gatech.edu/wcppolicies/engl-1101-and-1102-common -policies-fall
+-2020/">set of common objectives</a> that this course was designed to
+teach, developing a Writing Process with revision, synthesis, and
+drafting and rhetorically effective presentation for distinct audiences
+and contexts.
+Revision and research play a large role in developing ideas and
+arguments and making the arguments robust.
+While this recursive, iterative process played a role in every
+assignment, the digital reading journal is the primary source of process
+documents.</p>
+<iframe src="https://classblogs20.iac.gatech.edu/holdenr/" width=800
+height=400 frameborder=0></iframe>
+<p>Assigned prompts in the reading journal correspond to class readings
+and ask students to develop arguments and ideas based on course
+material.
+Sourcing and eventual finetuning of these ideas both play a role in the
+journal: in most entries, we were asked to use quotes and references
+from both class material and pop culture or general research.
+This is especially visible in the final post ("Medical Devices, the
+DMCA, and the corporate profit motive"), where I used links to other
+websites to make it a better document to refer back to later.
+Images and analysis also emphasized the role of the digital reading
+journal as a process document for my analysis of specific works or
+the overall health theme.
+But each entry also marks my progress in the general skills of analysis
+and rhetoric, especially.
+The electronic form factor has unique norms and options to elaborate,
+like a less formalistic style and heavy image presence, and these can
+change the rhetorical strategy I use when sectioning and emphasis are
+much more fluent than an essay.
+</p>
+<p>
+The use of images actually enhances my analysis, too, because I'm
+responding to the ideas that another work provides, and if I can
+directly include that work, it becomes much easier to speak about since
+the audience is meant to refer back to it and familiarize themselves.
+When the audience is me, this anchors my ideas to a specific factual
+reference, like the timeline in "HeLa and Henrietta."
+</p>
+<iframe src="https://classblogs20.iac.gatech.edu/holdenr/2020/10/23/
+hela-and-henrietta/" width=800 height=400 frameborder=0></iframe>
+<p>
+Quotes and the use of photos to highlight what's important is particular
+to the electronic medium, and it's particularly valuable when creating a
+personal reference piece.
+This is one example of shifting language and presentation towards the
+desired audience and situation, which is one of the major points of the
+<a href="https://sites.gatech.edu/wcppolicies/engl-1101-and-1102-common
+-policies-fall-2020">Rhetoric Learning Outcome.</a>
+</p>
+<table>
+<thead><tr>
+    <td width=158><p><strong>Category</strong></p>
+    <td width=158><p><strong>Outcomes by the USG Board of Regents</strong></p>
+    <td width=158><p><strong>Outcomes by the Council of Writing Program
+    Administrators</strong></p>
+    <td width=158><p><strong>Additional Expectations of the GTWCP
+    </strong></p>
+</tr></thead>
+<tbody><tr>
+<td width="158" valign="top">
+<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Rhetoric</strong></p>
+<p style="text-align: left;">Rhetoric focuses on available means of
+persuasion, considering the synergy of factors such as context,
+audience, purpose, role, argument, organization, design, visuals, and
+conventions of language.</p>
+</td>
+<td width="158" valign="top">
+<ul>
+<li style="text-align: left;">Adapt communication to circumstances and
+audience.</li>
+<li style="text-align: left;">Produce communication that is
+stylistically appropriate and mature.</li>
+<li style="text-align: left;">Communicate in standard English for
+academic and professional contexts.</li>
+<li style="text-align: left;">Sustain a consistent purpose and point of
+view.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td style="text-align: left;" width="158" valign="top">
+<ul>
+    <li>Use a variety of technologies to address a range of
+    audiences.</li>
+    <li>Learn common formats for different kinds of texts.</li>
+    <li>Develop knowledge of genre conventions ranging from structure
+    and paragraphing to tone and mechanics.</li>
+    <li>Control such surface features as syntax, grammar, punctuation,
+    and spelling.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+<td width="158" valign="top">
+<ul>
+
+<li style="text-align: left;">Create artifacts that demonstrate the
+synergy of rhetorical elements.</li>
+<li style="text-align: left; background-color: yellow">Demonstrate
+adaptation of register, language, and conventions for specific contexts
+and audiences.</li>
+<li style="text-align: left;">Apply strategies for communication in and
+across both academic disciplines and cultural contexts in the community
+and the workplace.</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+
+
diff --git a/markley/portfolio/01_first_week_video.html b/markley/portfolio/02_first_week_video.html
index 33b3c9c..b2dec99 100644
--- a/markley/portfolio/01_first_week_video.html
+++ b/markley/portfolio/02_first_week_video.html
@@ -10,9 +10,13 @@ modality (I plan to focus on design and aesthetics of presentation).</p>
 <h3>First-Week Video</h3>
 <iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/450699415"
 allowfullscreen="" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0"></iframe>
+<h3>First-Week Video Script</h3>
+<iframe width=600 height=400
+src="https://git.hrhr.dev/school20/plain/markley/03_first_week_video">
+</iframe>
 <dl>
-    <dd>Goals</dd>
-        <dt>Through this assignment, I familiarized myself with the
+    <dt>Goals</dt>
+        <dd>Through this assignment, I familiarized myself with the
         WOVEN elements and set a goal for self-improvement throughout
         the course.
         I also worked on video production and presentation, to practice
@@ -26,9 +30,9 @@ allowfullscreen="" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0"></iframe>
         project) because I will probably want to put extra effort into
         using the visual and design aspect of my content effectively.
         The reading journal, especially, will benefit from extra design
-        work.</dt>
-    <dd>Purpose/Prompt</dd>
-        <dt>This video includes a short introduction to me, including my
+        work.</dd>
+    <dt>Purpose/Prompt</dt>
+        <dd>This video includes a short introduction to me, including my
         name, "major," and hometown and the theme of this course (health
         as a social construct) and the teacher (Dr. Markley).
         The First-Week Video asks about a potential struggle with WOVEN
@@ -43,9 +47,9 @@ allowfullscreen="" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0"></iframe>
         I could have talked about better, simpler presentations I've
         made on topics I've known more about, where I can tell most of
         the story and the graphics were improved through a couple of
-        rounds of revision, based on the content.</dt>
-    <dd>Audience</dd>
-        <dt>The audience is faculty members and other first-year
+        rounds of revision, based on the content.</dd>
+    <dt>Audience</dt>
+        <dd>The audience is faculty members and other first-year
         students who are familiar with WOVEN, this assignment, and the
         objectives of the course in general, like rhetoric.
         Because of this familiarity with the objective, I explicitly
@@ -61,9 +65,9 @@ allowfullscreen="" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0"></iframe>
         could have talked about a revision or the impact of a poor
         design and better shown my point about brevity and still had
         time to talk about the digital reading journal.
-        </dt>
-    <dd>Design for Medium</dd>
-        <dt>Because this is a video, I focused on engagement.
+        </dd>
+    <dt>Design for Medium</dt>
+        <dd>Because this is a video, I focused on engagement.
         For content, I wrote out a script that I would read, rehearse,
         and edit down into.
         I used a high-jumpcut vlog style to make the video seem more
@@ -77,9 +81,9 @@ allowfullscreen="" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0"></iframe>
         because I think that it better covers up breaks in talking and
         maintains a central element throughout the video.
         I did try to keep it quiet relative to me talking because the
-        music itself is unimportant.</dt>
-    <dd>Revision</dd><!--The most important question-->
-        <dt>Another type of video may have fit my argument better, but
+        music itself is unimportant.</dd>
+    <dt>Revision</dt><!--The most important question-->
+        <dd>Another type of video may have fit my argument better, but
         given the style I chose, the video could have been improved on
         the script and on the presentation.
         The script could have been much more personal by extending the
@@ -94,5 +98,5 @@ allowfullscreen="" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0"></iframe>
         If I had mostly memorized the script and propped up the camera
         to get a single shot between cuts and to stabilize it, the video
         would probably feel higher quality.
-        </dt>
+        </dd>
 </dl>
diff --git a/markley/portfolio/03_digital_reading_journal.html b/markley/portfolio/03_digital_reading_journal.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/markley/portfolio/03_digital_reading_journal.html
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+<!--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>
diff --git a/markley/portfolio/04_reading_response.html b/markley/portfolio/04_reading_response.html
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+<!--Title: Reading Response Essays and Revision Activities-->
+<h2>Introduction</h2>
+<p>This artifact includes three reading response essays and revision
+activities corresponding to each one on different structural strategies.
+The Reading Response Essays assess critical thinking and rhetoric by
+asking questions about "health" through the books we read in class.
+Health is a set of social ideals generally designed as "preventive
+medicine" but deeply influenced by the culture that created them.
+The reading response essays (without revision activity updates) are
+listed below along with the corresponding revision activities
+</p>
+
+<h3>Reading Response Essay One</h3>
+<p><strong>Prompt:</strong> <em>The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
+Hyde</em>, as the title indicates, refers to Dr. Jekyll’s experiments,
+behavior, and transformation as "strange." Likewise, The Sign of Four
+ends with a chapter entitled "The Strange Story of Jonathan Small."
+Explain what "strange" means in these two texts, using direct quotations
+from both texts, references to historical context, and ideas we have
+discussed about "health" to support your argument.</p>
+<object type="application/pdf" style="width: 100%; height: 60vh;
+border-width: 0;" data="https://hrhr.dev/markley/essayone"></object>
+<h3>Uneven-U</h3>
+<p>The Uneven U asks me to choose two paragraphs and look at each
+sentence to see how "abstracted" it is from a direct quote up to a
+general statement about health.
+I commented on each sentence and then rewrote both of the paragraphs I
+chose to get a desired "somewhat abstract to most concrete to very
+abstract" curve.</p>
+<iframe style="width: 100%; height: 60vh; border-width: 0;"
+src="https://git.hrhr.dev/school20/plain/markley/12_revision">
+</iframe>
+<h3>Reading Response Essay Two</h3>
+<p><strong>Prompt:</strong> Claude Bernard defines the experiment as "an
+observation induced with an object of control." Discuss how
+experimentation relates to the social ideal of health. Use direct
+evidence from The Island of Dr. Moreau and Medical Apartheid, historical
+context, and ideas about health to support your argument. You may
+include examples from other texts we have read, but your primary focus
+should be the readings from the past two weeks.</p>
+<object type="application/pdf" style="width: 100%; height: 60vh;
+border-width: 0;" data="https://hrhr.dev/markley/essaytwo"></object>
+<h3>Reverse Outline</h3>
+<p>This is about creating an outline from what I've already written that
+tells the main argument: the main idea and how a given paragraph
+advances the central argument is enough to tell when a paragraph's
+message is muddled, which is the point of this argument.
+I have continued to focus on this cohesiveness within a paragraph in my
+writing because of this activity.</p>
+<iframe style="width: 100%; height: 60vh; border-width: 0;"
+src="https://git.hrhr.dev/school20/plain/markley/15_reverse_outline">
+</iframe>
+
+<h3>Reading Response Essay Three</h3>
+<p><strong>Prompt:</strong> In the first lecture on health, I discussed
+how new technologies that help to measure and perceive the the "health"
+of the human body create new rules, regulations, and norms that govern
+"health." Using either "The Yellow Wallpaper" or <em>The Immortal Life
+of Henrietta Lacks</em> explain how new technologies, treatments, or
+ideas for measuring "health" lead to new rules, regulations, and norms.
+I strongly encourage you to refer back to the first lecture to help you
+consider this relationship between technology and health.</p>
+<object type="application/pdf" style="width: 100%; height: 60vh;
+border-width: 0;" data="https://hrhr.dev/markley/essaythree"></object>
+<h3>Active Voice Revision Activity</h3>
+<p>This revision activity asks students to review their third essay for
+sentences written in passive voice and change them to active voice.
+This makes the writing more clear and correct.
+This one is pretty simple, so I want to keep up avoiding passive voice
+in my future writing.</p>
+<iframe style="width: 100%; height: 60vh; border-width: 0;"
+src="https://git.hrhr.dev/school20/plain/markley/22_active_voice">
+</iframe>
+<dl>
+<dt>Goals</dt><!--Learning Outcomes: Rhetoric, Critical
+Thinking, and Process (reuse language from common policies page)-->
+    <dd>These assignments ask students to develop a strong academic
+    argument about how health and other social constructions like
+    experiments or technology relate.
+    Developing these ideas is part of the
+    <a href="https://sites.gatech.edu/wcppolicies/engl-1101-and-1102-common-policies-fall-2020/">
+    Critical Thinking learning outcome,</a> in the sense that they
+    require analysis of the indirect statements literature makes, like
+    Jonathan Small's "strangeness" referring to his nonconformance with
+    social norms.
+    </dd>
+<dt>Purpose</dt>
+    <dd>This assignment asks students to write a formal essay about
+    health and readings related to ideas about health.
+    </dd>
+<dt>Audience</dt>
+    <dd>The audience for these is a general academic audience, who is
+    very familiar with the course material, including the variety of
+    concepts of health.
+    Because the audience should already understand the basics I don't
+    include explanations of health and try to avoid book summaries.
+    However, niche terms with potentially multiple meanings are defined
+    if used, like "scientific racism" or "evolutionary Darwinism."
+
+    </dd>
+    <dd>Dr. Markley or a general academic reader. more formal than blog
+    posts. designed to be practice with argumentative writing.</dd>
+<dt>Design for Medium</dt>
+    <dd>The essay isn't very "multimodal," squarely occupying the
+    "Writing" communication mode, and it's formal writing at that.
+    This requires a fairly consistent structure, in the MLA format and
+    in the organization.
+    The MLA format is the 12pt, double-spaced Times New Roman required
+    of most standard essays, and there is the single MLA8 citation
+    standard.
+    This is because the essays lean heavily on direct quotes from the
+    pieces we're analyzing, so the regimented page number references are
+    useful to an academic reader wanting more context.
+    Structurally, these essays fit a pretty standard academic essay---an
+    introduction, conclusion, and body paragraphs divided up by their
+    topic.
+    As the revision activities show, this structure is somewhat flexible
+    (i.e. can be done poorly), but the organization matters, and I can
+    improve it by paying attention to whether each paragraph makes a
+    convincing point towards the central argument.
+    I usually don't do outlining when I'm writing, but I think I am
+    going to use the reverse outline to compensate for my rambling
+    tendencies.
+    </dd>
+<dt>Revision</dt>
+    <dd>Particularly in the first reading response essay, I struggled
+    with organizing my ideas.
+    Despite a coherent thesis that I still believe, I tried to
+    incorporate different information that did not correspond with my
+    argument (or at least I didn't develop how it did).
+    My mention of Holmes's cocaine addiction is not well-addressed or
+    contextualized in terms of Jonathan Smalls, but it seems to relate
+    to the idea of health, so I decided to include it.
+    Ideas like that could probably be trimmed down and replaced.
+    My paragraphs in the first reading response essay also don't follow
+    Uneven-U very well.
+    If I repair the sentence order to fully develop the central argument
+    about contradiction, they will probably come off as more insightful
+    than they are now, with a quote (the lowest level of abstraction)
+    as the second-to-last sentence.
+    The revision activities helped me to see what exactly "poorly
+    organized" refers to and how paragraphs can be deliberately
+    constructed rather than accumulate ideas based on topic.
+    </dd>
+</dl>
diff --git a/markley/portfolio/05_medical_object_video.html b/markley/portfolio/05_medical_object_video.html
new file mode 100644
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+<!--Title: Medical Object Video-->
+<h1>Introduction</h1>
+<p>
+The Final Video Project for this English 1102 course was about a
+"Medical Object."
+In each of the texts we studied this semester, there were several
+examples of medical objects that either had big impacts or were shaped
+by their cultural and historical contexts, and therefore are a lens into
+a larger social issue (similar to the concept of health).
+This video was about finding a medical object and digging into its
+historical context within the framework of health and social ideals.
+I chose to talk about healthcare and how politics has interacted with it
+by investigating a specific drug called insulin glargine/Lantus.
+</p><p>
+This assignment was structured as the final medical object video
+artifact and three preceding process documents.
+The process documents are a proposal, an annotated bibliography, and a
+script.
+</p>
+
+<h2>The Medical Object Video</h2>
+<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/483001196" width="640"
+height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen"
+allowfullscreen></iframe>
+<h3>The Project Proposal</h3>
+<p>The Project Proposal </p>
+<iframe src="https://hrhr.dev/markley/proposal" style="width: 60%;
+height: 60vh; min-width: 600px; min-height: 400px;"></iframe>
+<h3>The Annotated Bibliography</h3>
+<p>This document came after the project proposal sequentially.
+It is a small subset of the citations I could have used from my
+research, and it includes some analysis of each source that was useful
+in developing my script.</p>
+<iframe src="https://hrhr.dev/markley/biblio" style="width: 60%;
+height: 60vh; min-width: 600px; min-height: 400px;"></iframe>
+<h3>The Medical Object Video Script</h3>
+<p>This supports the medical object video, and I read off of this for
+part of the video, but I changed some words slightly version because I
+didn't like how part of the script ended up sounding.</p>
+<iframe src="https://git.hrhr.dev/school20/plain/markley/21_script"
+width=600 height=400></iframe>
+
+<dl>
+    <dt>Goals</dt>
+        <dd>Recursive writing was a big part of creating this artifact;
+        the four layers in the process documents achieves the
+        <a
+        href="https://sites.gatech.edu/wcppolicies/engl-1101-and-1102-common-policies-fall-2020">Process
+        Outcome</a> with repeated editing of similar ideas and an
+        incorporation of research into the process rather than something
+        occurring before the formal process.
+        The Project Proposal includes a segment about what research
+        needs to be done for the annotated bibliography and the script,
+        which is putting in writing the process of discovery and of
+        analysis.
+        The assignment asks us to write out this proposal and then the
+        annotated bibliography because it requires us to focus on
+        research and a filming/design plan.
+        This focus means that the final product will probably have
+        better-filmed and -researched content.
+        <!--Often, without a process in place to develop these specific
+        pieces, I end up with less developed versions because I'm
+        focused on writing the script and then looking for articles or
+        research to support my ideas, which is a poor investigative
+        method. -->
+        This is a synthesis piece, and the research is meant to be very
+        broad, so I observed several different disciplines and genres,
+        and the medical studies varied significantly from summary
+        histories and newspaper articles.
+        I was able to use these different accounts, which were all
+        biased towards reporting different parts (medical histories
+        preferred medical breakthroughs, newspaper articles preferred
+        sensational statistics) to build a cohesive narrative around
+        insulin glargine.
+        </dd>
+    <dt>Audience</dt>
+        <dd>The audience is the general public, including my peers at
+        Georgia Tech.
+        This means that I'm not talking to an expert audience and can
+        assume very little knowledge about my topic like I would on an
+        essay about a book, so I need to explain a lot of the topic.
+        Most of the video is just this, me explaining the eventual
+        development that led up to genetically modified human insulin,
+        but I do have a "take."
+        This bias is deliberately embedded into the storytelling and
+        it's why I talk about patents so much even when I'm mostly
+        describing the technology's development.
+        Furthermore, this means that the product should be engaging.
+        A general audience isn't going to sit through a boring technical
+        summary like a niche audience might (although it should still be
+        avoided), and I tried to achieve this with my nonverbal tone and
+        body language.
+        Editing made sure that my speaking was decent and that picture
+        asides broke up more monotonous bits.</dd>
+    <dt>Purpose/Prompt</dt>
+        <dd>The final project asks students to create a 5-minute video
+        (I created a 7-minute video with a 1 minute end card) that
+        explains a medical object we haven't discussed in class.
+        "Object" is a really broad category, including procedures,
+        techniques, devices, medicines, models, or breakthroughs as long
+        as they are medical.
+        Originally, I was going to talk about some medical device
+        because there is a lot of injustice perpetrated by companies on
+        medical devices and information security, but I learned that the
+        FDA has allowed researchers to test implants with DRM for
+        security, which weakened my case.
+        However, I still wanted to talk about exploitation, which
+        brought me to insulin, "the poster child for [over-priced
+        healthcare]."
+        I chose to work on this project alone, and created a product
+        that explains what insulin glargine is (I used historical
+        context to do this), how it works, how it is used, when and how
+        it was invented, and the significant contexts that led to its
+        development and its current form (in insulin's case, patents and
+        massive conglomerate mergers).</dd>
+    <dt>Design for Medium</dt>
+        <dd>I used the video medium as an extension of a presentation
+        where things can be performed multiple times and modified after
+        their performance.
+        I "performed" the script in more of a news-show style than the
+        video-essay type I was looking for, but this is still a common
+        trope within the medium, so audiences are comfortable with this
+        sort of presentation.
+        I also used a couple of video essay tropes like section breaks
+        and overlain photos because I want there to be a sense of
+        consistent chronology even if I jump around some due to some
+        changes happening around the same time or being larger trends of
+        years or decades.
+        I don't have any self-made visual content, so the principles of
+        design (the symmetry, alignment kinds) are less applicable, but
+        I did choose my background to be mostly symmetric and well-lit
+        and I chose the titles based on the repetition principle.
+        I reused the wall color and the door color (lightened and
+        darkened, respectively, for readability) in the title to keep
+        color consistency.
+        </dd>
+    <dt>Revision</dt>
+        <dd>On this video, the supporting documents were fairly
+        complete, so the content and citations (when used) were relevant
+        and fairly high-quality.
+        One thing I would have prefered to do with the script or the
+        annotated bibliography is to integrate health more explicitly.
+        I believe that, implicitly, medicine, underuse, and social
+        conditions have a lot to do fundamentally with health, but I
+        believe I didn't sufficiently explore how the norms we have
+        interact with social ideals and society (like the poor).
+        For the video, I didn't leave myself as much time as I would
+        have liked to edit it, and I don't think that it is as appealing
+        as it could be.
+        The solid-color titles are somewhat bland, and even though
+        they're sufficient, a redesign could be nicer looking.
+        Images were also somewhat hastened.
+        I didn't exactly establish a style for image placement, which
+        could have hurt their inclusion, and the images that I included
+        weren't particularly deliberate; most were to break up the
+        monotony of me talking, which is valuable, but I feel that had I
+        searched harder, I may have found a more valuable image set.</dd>
+</dl>