Overall I found that my experience with project was very refreshing and interesting to me. I wrote in a way that was not familiar to me and was able to understand the schema to writing a annotated bibliography. At first it was somewhat confusing for me to use Oxygen and type up my project in XML, but as continued to do it I became more comfortable with the idea of XML. One of the things that I worried about as I writing up these annotated bibliographies was that the transition from element to element would be somewhat bumpy and would not flow compared to a typed up version in a normal word document. But when I started looking at the formatted file, I was surprised to see that the overall flow and composition of my work was very similar to what I would see on something similar written up on a word document.
At first I viewed having to use elements to my writing as a constraint because I had to think about how I was going to write something into a certain element or think about how that part fits there. But from continual use of the schema I was able to see that I was more efficiently organizing my thoughts and structuring my points in ways that made a lot sense. The markup schema that we devised in class help up very well as I was working on my project, though I feel there were moments where I wanted put in something but did not have a good feel for with element it belonged to or if any of the elements we came up with actually fit to that idea.
Moving forward I am actually looking forward to using Oxygen and writing in XML. I think that learning how to work within new genres and formats using this technology will be a great opportunity for me develop my writing ability and understand the ideas of genre.
