Short Form Essay

This short form essay series is meant to show quick form writing skills. There are distinctions made depending on the social platform I am writing for and this project allows us to be able to keep these important points in mind depending on the site.

Final PK: Why the new space race is necessary

This is my final PK presentation. It is timed for 20 seconds each slide and goes over the important topics covered in my long form final essay.

Overview & Context: Analyzing a written piece as a whole

Modern online writing, simply put, is content creation. There is an unstoppable need for content online. News articles come out daily and content writer’s sole focus is to create the media we consume. Gary Vaynerchuk once said, “Content is king, but context is God.” Understanding the audience and the context of the subject matter can […]

Tone & Audience

Have you ever heard someone say that people’s attention span is getting shorter and shorter? Unfortunately, that’s become a true statement thanks to the rise of the digital age. As we continue to dive into the digital age, scientists have noticed a drop in attention span across the board. TV has distracted and entertained us […]

Writing as a skill vs writing to write

Writing for any form of media takes time, refinement, effort and creativity. Writing for websites and digital media is no different. There is an added perspective here of having writing guide users and navigate them not only through the subject and content that is being written as the primary reason to visit a website but […]

Who I am as a writer

I feel that as a writer, i am much more expressive than I am in conversation—at least with strangers. I feel much more liberated to form thoughts and sentences that I can go back, reword, and edit until I feel satisfied with how I express myself. I feel that the ability to word your thoughts […]

Final Project proposal presentation

The purpose of this video is to show what I plan on covering as the topic for my final project. Space imagery is unique in the fact that its completely alien to us (for lack of a better word). We know that there are certain feelings and emotions that come along with imagery from space […]

Scientific Visual storytelling: Imagery from beyond Earth and how we can better perceive it

We live our daily lives on this planet, going about our business working, going to the gym, going out to eat at a restaurant, traveling on vacation, etc. There is so much to do and so much to see that we may never really get the chance to explore and experience it all. All of […]

Deadly Sins of Visual Storytelling: Perception distortion through photo manipulation

Photo manipulation has occurred for decades, its nothing new or uncommon, but as technology progresses so do ways that photos and videos can be manipulated. The issue with this is that certain information, people, places, and events should not be manipulated. When it comes to journalism for example, reporters should report on facts when publishing […]

Climate change and visual representation

Climate change is an issue that remarkably continues to be debated to this day. It is a fact that the Earth’s climate changes year to year and over millions of years. Global Warming is the advancement of climate change through human pollution of the atmosphere. Some of the greatest contributors to that pollution are cars […]