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You selected a piece of digital literature to work with. What did you select? What was cool about it?

Digital Literature

Agency

You have completed notes on a piece of electronic literature focusing on its multimedia components.

You developed a statement interpreting the text.

Agency

Dene Grigar defines agency as “the degree of freedom and choice a user has” with in a piece of digital literature (30).

Our job is to write a paper analyzing a piece of literature and explaining:

• the story it tells
• how agency impacts the story

How Do We Write About Agency?

Sample

Text

Read the sample project about a piece of digital literature.

How does agency function in this documentary project?

What specific details does the author provide about the text using close reading skills?

Thesis

Draft Thesis

Your thesis for this project should:

• provide some interpretation of the text,
• explain how agency plays a role in that interpretation

Writing

Process

To write this project, you will need to:

• re-examine the digital literature with your thesis in mind,
• re-read Grigar and look for useful quotes,
• provide a close reading of moments from the digital literature that support your main thesis