The medium of a project is the way(s) in which it is shared with other people.  No matter the content, there has to be some way in which that information goes from the writer’s head to the eyes and ears of the audience.  Depending on the audience, some forms of media are more appropriate than others.  For example, a potential client thousands of miles away would likely be easier to reach digitally than with a proposal in print media.  A memo is also likely more effective as a single digital or print document than as a slide presentation, whereas an entire proposal might benefit from the dual use of digital and oral media.  The entire semester was done digitally, but we were still able to use oral media and create slide presentations, and we even encountered some print media in our genre analysis (even if it was in the form of digital pictures).  Sometimes we combined oral media with slide presentations, and sometimes we even combined it with simple digital media (documents) such as we did to present our instructions (figure 9).  It seems that at the beginning I was not really aware of the exact implications/categories of “media” and more saw it as an extension of formatting of content (figure 10).  Eventually, though, through class discussion and genre analysis, I came to understand both the ways in which media is delineated and how it fits into audience and genre and everything else (figure 11).  

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