Plog Reflection

        Playing Skyrim while analyzing it as a valuable literary text has helped me develop a variety of useful compositional skills. Even the act of writing about Skyrim, a video game, shows that I have the ability to consider the value of a non-traditional medium. I have been able to create a character with his own personality: Torbjorn Skogtyv, the thief who can fight for himself when confronted. I have played in such a way that follows and expresses that persona I created. I have had to analyze many different genres of conveying information within Skyrim, and familiarize myself with the genre of the "plog," or play-log, in which I wrote my accounts. I was able to identify Aristotle's appeals as they appeared in the game and consider why they were appropriate in their respective situations. I was able to consider the continuity present between various points in the game and judge their depth, considering why certain things may appear as they do and how they contribute to the quality of the game as a work of literature. I have been able to assess options of action and dialogue, trying to determine whether they will produce the same results for the story and my character's progression. I have at times needed to abandon more straightforward strategies when they did not suffice and was able to find a more unorthodox solution to a problem I was faced with.
        All of these skills can be applied in future tasks of composition. No matter what medium or genre of information is provided for me, I will be able to produce coherent writing that considers the value of the content within the source. I know how to view a problem from multiple angles and decide which approaches or strategies are the best for solving it. Writing in the "plog" format has  made me comfortable with writing on various platforms and it has made me able to deal with comments made on my writing; comments from peers and my professor have become instrumental in shaping how I write for the current medium, and I can process criticism in a way that improves my writing. Perhaps most importantly, I have learned to change my writing and working strategies based on the different tasks I am faced with.