A huge part of imagining, drafting, creating, revising, and publishing a multimodal project is managing the pieces of the project. When you write a typical academic essay, you often work with only one piece: your document filled with written words. When working on a multimodal project, you might be managing two, three, four, or dozens of pieces, most if not all of which are electronic files. Each of these files likely has a different name and is of a different type. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when negotiating .wmv, .mov, .bmp, .m4v, .pdf, .jpg, and other files.
This section offers a few good practices for managing files across a multimodal project:
Saving all your files in one place
Keeping track of where your sources came from
Using clear, descriptive names when you save your files
Keeping track of versions when you share files with others
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Managing your files
Writing with technology