Metacognitive Analyses

Metacognitive Analyses

Electronic writing is something that has been around a while now, but nothing I have ever really experienced. I have written papers using electronics but not till recently did I truly understand the meaning of electronic writing more profoundly when we started our blogs. Our blogs were just the beginning, when we were to the end of our research we had to write a hybrid essay about one important topic or argument about our blog. A hybrid essay is just a composition of writing styles put together like images and words that flow together to tell a story or make a statement. Making the hybrid essay was not an easy task it took just as much as thinking and effort as our blog.

When I first heard that we had to make a hybrid essay I automatically was not looking forward to it without knowing what it was. Just the name itself sounded terrible, when I thought hybrid I imagined a combination of things. Being that I am not a great essay writer and I had to approach something I have never done before was the challenge itself. I had to understand the meaning of hybrid essay and when I started looking at examples online it seemed much simpler. The examples were essays with a combination of pictures and sentences that told stories but were formatted in a way that they weren’t just placed randomly.  Other examples of a hybrid essay were just words without pictures but still had its own formatting which was a type of list. Even though they were all good essay I thought the essay with pictures for me was much more smother and easier to understand the point being made. It made much more sense if I was going to put different writing styles together I could use pictures to allow people to see a visual of what I was talking about.

Once I understood how a hybrid essay was composed I started to think what I wanted to concentrate on. Even though I understood the definition it was still a bit difficult to put all these ideas together and make them flow together. It was hard choosing a topic to focus on when you have done a lot of research and everything is important to know. My process in picking what I wanted to concentrate my essay on was what hit me the most while doing my research. I ultimately picked pet care, pet homelessness and puppy mills which is more than one topic, which is what could have caused me at moments to go off topic because I had three things that I wanted to expand. These three topics where related but still can be difficult to put together without sounding like your jumping from one topic to another. I also wanted to incorporate pictures that allowed people to not just read it but see it and maybe actually allow it to sink in and maybe genuinely feel bad and help out instead of reading it and forgetting it.

Writing the hybrid essay was a overall good experience just like the blog and it helped me understand electronic writing as well as different skills of writing. I learned how to put two types of writing together without sounding to much out of place. Even though I learned these skills I still need to practice them because they are not close to being perfect I still have trouble making my essay run smoothly and that was my trouble in my hybrid essay. I at moments jumped from one place to another and had to go back and change my ideas. Writing is a leaning process and there is always new ways but now its not just on paper its on the web for millions of people to see and has it own formatting and will continue to change.