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What was specifically revised from one draft to another?
- From my rough to final draft, I added/changed/removed many things. The biggest thing I added from the original to the final was evidence. My rough draft lacked direct quotations from the text. Another thing I added was smoother transitions. Going from one paragraph to the next was not smooth until the final draft.
Point to global changes: how did you reconsider your thesis or organization?
- My thesis changed to better fit the topic of arguments in computer science. My organization was originally done well, so I made few changes in that regard.
What led you to these changes? A reconsideration of audience? A shift in purpose?
- Fully addressing the topic was what led me to changing my thesis. Before revision, the thesis did not address the larger purpose of the paper.
How do these changes affect your credibility as an author?
- These changes did not change my credibility per se. The changes did, however, make the paper more clear and effective as a whole.
How will these changes better address the audience or venue?
- These changes better addressed the audience's interests and reasons to read the paper by explicitly stating what the paper would cover. The audience, after all, is reading the paper to better understand how computer scientists construct arguments.
Point to local changes: how did you reconsider sentence structure and style?
- In terms of sentence structure, I did not reconsider heavily. The style of my paper did not change drastically either. The changes I made were focused around adding evidence and connecting big ideas.
How will these changes assist your audience in understanding your purpose?
- These changes help the reader understand understand my purpose by better explaining the points I make within the body paragraphs of the paper. In reality, the introduction and conclusion are the primary ways in which I reveal my purpose, but the body paragraphs reinforce my purpose.
Did you have to reconsider the conventions of the particular genre in which you are writing?
- I did not really have to reconsider the conventions of this genre. Rhetorical analysis are a large part of high school English, so this assignment came more naturally.
Finally, how does the process of reflection help you reconsider your identity as a writer?
- Reflection forces me to evaluate myself on a specific level as a writer. I would never reflect this deeply about my writing if I wasn't forced to in an assignment like this
Reflection:
After reading Chelsea's and Chloe's reflections, I realized we had similar experiences in some regards, but different experiences in other ways. For example, Chelsea's thesis stayed the same throughout both drafts. This is quite the opposite of what I did, considering my thesis changed drastically from first to final draft. In Chloe's reflection, she talked about how she went back and re-read her article to gain new perspective on how to write her analysis. I can relate to this, as I watched the TEDx talk I analyzed many many times to get the best idea of how to approach this project.
I had to do the same thing with the thesis as well. I aimed it more towards the argument the author was making of the source I was analyzing rather than me using an introduction to explain more of the rhetorical situations. I needed to read the rubric and the assignment a couple times to really get a handle of what he wanted us to do with the assignment. I generally don't reread much of my own work if it is not for a grade, so these kind of assignments always force me to look at my own errors and find the best ways to fix them.
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