In blog 6, I mentioned my stakeholders as musicians attending high school or college, students interested in music that are applying for college or in college, family and friends of students of music in universities, and faculty and staff of these universities. I believe they also serve as my main audience. However, these groups will view and relate to my topic differently. For those who had prior music experience, they would relate from experience and know a good portion or information that I've written about. I think those who benefit and gain a lot of information are students in music that are applying for college or are in college. I hope they learn by reading my autoethnography and perhaps influence their decisions on applying to universities and taking a few music classes. That was the main purpose of my autoethnography: to inform the audience on the positive influence of taking music classes in universities.
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If you haven't noticed before, I love music. It is a part of me that will never die. Once English 101 is over, I would still like to use my domain to showcase performances and music as well as share sheet music to other enthusiastic saxophone players. I enjoy using weebly since it allows insertion of youtube portals, which is great to showcase music. I'm hoping that my saxophonist friends and other saxophonists browsing my blog enjoy looking through my domain.
Throughout my academic years, I've learned different writing styles and genres. I've involved immensely in his school when I learned how to write papers, personal essays, reports, and college application essays. As I improved as a writer, I realized brainstorming and outlining came pretty useful when writing anything. I love this part of the writing process since you can get creative and anything you list has potential to become a major part of your writing project.
I enjoy writing more than I have in public and middle school, since not only did I improve, but also I realized writing doesn't have to be strict with a lot of rules that we all learned in our early academic years. While learning all the rules of writing was essential to our writing career, we also learned with more experience comes more leeway to make our writing more artistic and expressional. I feel writing is just like any other activity. I grew up performing saxophone and learning all the rules like the back of my hand. However, as I improved the saxophone, I learned that breaking the rules could actually help me sound better. Same with writing; the more you grow, the more you can bend the rules to convey your message better. As we learned in class, stakeholders are those who are interested in or affected by the project. Some stakeholders in my project are:
A musician uses manny utensils over his or her career, but some utensils are so mundane that they are often overlooked. One of these utensils is the pencil. It is an artifact that revolves around a musician's life. It is a tool used to improve music. From dynamics to pitch to key change to expression, the pencil marks it all. The pencil is a living artifact that lives with all current musicians and generations waiting to come.
For my autoethnography, I am required to interview at least two source. Below are my following questions.
Music has become a big activity in universities.Why has it become so popular? Why have you continued music in your greater education? What (musical) activities have you immersed in during your greater education? What are the benefits of being involved in music? What was your favorite (musical) memory while in college? If you had advice for those who want to continue in music and improve (or get started in music), what would it be? Commentary:
This blog is, if not the first, one of the first multimodal projects I have launched. I learned about the five modes of communication: linguistic, visual, aural, gestural, and spatial in Writer/Designer by Arola. In this project, I will be integrating all five modes. Linguistic, visual, and spatial are implied modes when creating an online autoethnography. For aural, my project gravitates towards music, so I am considering adding music for my project. As for gestural, hosting video interviews would show communication through gestures, body expressions, and facial expressions. All together, I hope using the five modes would help convey my messages as I write my autoethnography. In the reading of Writing and Editing for Digital Media by Carroll, Carroll gives great tips on how to become a better writer. For example, one of the tips I took was to be imaginative by using analogies, similes, and metaphors while avoiding cliches. Carroll also goes into depth about how a book's attributes is going to be different from a web page's. I find it interesting and a challenge, since this project will not be a traditional writing project, I will keep that in the back of my head when I am making my web project scalable and navigable. Questions from Writer/Designer: What is the difference between visual mode and spatial mode? How do we know which mode is the best to convey a message? Thinking about all the possibilities when I had to make an autoethnography, it took me an incredibly short time to actually decide what I wanted to write about. I have been performing for more than a decade and had dreams of doing music for a living for many years. However now at Emory, I am pursuing a liberal arts education. While I am not pursuing music, I have a topic to explore and write about for my autoethnography: musicians at Emory. My research questions include, "Why do musicians choose Emory?" "Do they plan to keep music with them beyond Emory?" What kinds of classes and activities do musicians tend to go for?" and "What makes an Emory musician unique?" Through interviews with performers, music majors, and music minors and looking through secondary sources, I would be able to answer these questions. I would also like to do some preliminary research by discussing with music majors, minors, and performers to explore subtopics and move my research to the right direction. I hope all those who read my autoethnography will learn more about me as well the musician life at Emory. Enjoy! |