If you put a gun to my head, gave me ten seconds to live, and one choice to make, I’d say that my inquiry project turned out to be the best piece of writing I did all year.  I felt it was the assignment that I could best pour myself into.  The research writing techniques that we learned helped me to visualize ways that I could implement my personality into my inquiry writing.  In my opinion it’s of the utmost importance if you want to be a good writer, that you know how to put yourself into your work; placing your “stamp” so to speak.

 
     I was able to put my stamp on this project using the digital essay format.  This allowed me to illustrate some of the ideas I described as well as let me put my humor into the assignment.  Knowing that a good portion of my readers likely don’t have the in-depth basketball knowledge that I have, I feel it helps when I describe a player, or more specifically when I describe what that player was like in high school, and there’s a link to a video right there waiting to back up my descriptions.  Even at the beginning of the piece when I use a strange dramatization of the issue starring both Michelangelo and the Pope, I included a picture of a Michelangelo statue in close proximity to the text to help readers visualize the situation.  Many of the rhetorical decisions I made with this project attempt to help my readers “see” what I'm talking about.  Others, such as the humorous photo captions, were made just because in real life that’s the way I view things.  I used these techniques to try and translate some of my sarcasm into this project, to show people that while yes, I care about this stuff and I did a lot of research, I also don’t take it too seriously.