The process of preparing work for publication also forced us to look critically at our own work. We had to select three assignments to include as important examples in the various paths and comment on them. For me, this proved one of the most useful aspects of the course. Critically reviewing my own work and considering a possible audience allowed me to become aware of the skills I had developed in the course of the semester that would allow me to communicate effectively with that audience. Other students reflect on this realization as well: Alison Hedley speaks about the process of learning “to see the continuities between granulation and literary analysis”; Michael Stevens discusses how he was able to apply the skills he learned from the mapmaking assignment to create a Ulysses mobile app; Daniel Powell reflects on the productive difficulties of working in “a genre [that] will become more prevalent and necessary as digital scholarly objects proliferate." In all these cases, the students gesture toward the skills they have learned that make their class work relevant for scholarly audiences.

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