This piece
was a really difficult beast to wrangle. I found myself starting the research
with basic general searches leaping from one webpage to another linked or
referenced page. It was a lot of fun discovering the history behind the cover,
and I found that there were so many ways to look at the history of the book
cover. There is the physical book cover and the aesthetic (younger) book cover.
What was so different about this
piece versus any other research projects that I have ever done before is the
fact that it was multimodal. How do I take all this information, and make it
more than just an essay explaining the history, the aesthetics, etc? That is
why images explain the aesthetics or looks of the old physical books tied in
very well.
As for paths I didn’t take with
this text: I didn’t discuss a lot of how the book itself function, I really
just tried to focus on JUST the cover, which I found so difficult because there
is so much to be said about books are constructed in a digital space.
I feel like I learned a lot about
composing a research project in a digital place. I wrote a lot of this piece in
Blogger instead of a word document because of formatting. I also discovered
that I struggled with my argument because of the change in mode that I was
writing in. Which intrigues me, why does the change in space affect how I am
thinking? Does the incorporation of images make it harder for me to explain my
argument when I feel that the images should have a larger part in “making” my
point?
As of right now I have no good
answer, but I’m going to play with images and arguments as I continue to write
mutimodally (did I just make up a word?)
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