Friday, October 23, 2015

Reflection on Project 2

Below, I will be answering questions from the picture above about my revision process with my Project Two essay.

1. What was specifically revised from one draft to another?
Originally in my first draft, I had put too much context and summarization of the article rather than reflect on the rhetorical strategies. Thus, in my revision I took small and unimportant paragraphs with unneeded context and replaced with analyzations of the rhetorical strategies.

2. Point to Global Changes: How did you reconsider my thesis or organization?
In my thesis in my final draft, I involved more about the author and the way the article was wrote rather than reflecting just on the subject of the article

3. What Led you to these changes? 
What led me to these changes was noticing that I had been missing a lot of important content that would greatly affect my grade. It was necessary to change so that I could earn a better grade.

4. How do these changes affect your credibility as an author?
I feel that these changes would improve my credibility. By reflecting on more than content, I am showing more depth into my writing than I had previously.

5. How will these changes better address the audience or venue?
Seeing as how this particular audience is meant to be persuaded  by the debate and informed of how the author does prove this argument, this will better address the audiences needs. 

6. How did you reconsider sentence structure and style?
During the revisions process, I focused more on content than anything else. However, when I was writing the revisions I formatted the sentence structure and style to emphasize the argument that I was writing about.

7. How will these changes assist your audience in understanding the purpose? 
These changes should allow the audience to see the debate and the authors side more clearly and make them able to format an opinion easier.

8.Did you have to reconsider the conventions of a particular genre in which you are writing?
I did not have to reconsider the conventions of the genre I was writing in. 

9.How does this process of reflection hep you reconsider your identity as an author?
Through this process, I found that I personally am better at finding information rather than analyzing it. It showed me that I have places to improve upon in my writing. 

REFLECTION
Looking at both Isaac and Hallye's reflections, I was able to see two separate ways of how people go about their revisions and what they feel they needed to fix. Both of them knew they had plenty of area to improve upon in their essays for their final draft and discussed it well in their reflections. 
As well, the two of them also reflected on how the changes of their papers would affect the audience view point of the essay. 

3 comments:

  1. You and I both had issues with having more summary than actual analysis, and revised our content more than the structure of our essays. We generally agreed on a lot of our reflections,and I definitely agree that it is easier for me to present information than successfully explain it. Congrats on finishing this project!

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  2. Like you, I also had to focus more on the author in the thesis rather than try to summarize the article. I also focus more on content when revising rather than sentence structure and grammar and I think that is better for the paper than focusing on how it is written. I also did not really think about the conventions since it was something I was familiar with. I'm glad you see it as a learning experience and you'll keep it in mind when writing.

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  3. I also noticed that I am better at summary than analysis. I had to really work on that in my project. Your process of revision was a little different from mine, but we were both comfortable with the conventions for the essay. Good luck!

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