Much college writing is still done on paper in traditional genres, but this practice is changing. You may be asked, or may be able to choose, to create multimodal projects using audio, video, images, and words as well as written-word projects. When you are able to make decisions about media for a project, make sure that your choices are appropriate for your topic, purpose, audience, and genre. You may start off planning to write a traditional print-based academic essay and then discover as you proceed that a different genre or medium may offer more effective ways to communicate your point.