Sunday, November 22, 2015

Reflection on Project 3

In this blog I will reflect on project 3. Specifically, I will be answering the nine questions on page 520 of Writing Public Lives.
Screenshot from my computer, 11/22/15

1. What was specifically revised from one draft to another?
  • The overall idea of my project changed from one draft to another. I originally wanted to address the lack of teachers in computer science, but decided to instead address the lack awareness about computer science in high school students.
2. Point to global changes: how did you reconsider your thesis or organization?
  • My organization stayed roughly the same. I began by introducing the issue briefly, and getting right into my proposal argument.
3. What led you to these changes? A reconsideration of audience? A shift in purpose?
  • Changing the overall point I wanted to argue came about after I had a shift in purpose. I wanted to work towards improving awareness of computer science in general.
4. How do these changes affect your credibility as an author? 
  • These changes don't affect my credibility as an author very much. The final product is not fundamentally different.
5. How will these changes better address the audience or venue?
  • These changes better address the younger audience I'm trying to target since I'm focusing on high school students.
6. Point to local changes: how did you reconsider sentence structure and style?
  • I changed my style to putting mostly bulleted information on my slides and describing them in better detail in my voiceover.
7. How will these changes assist your audience in understanding your purpose?
  • These changes will help my audience understand my purpose more clearly since the presentation is better structured.
8. Did you have to reconsider the conventions of the particular genre in which you are writing?
  • I did have to reconsider the conventions of a PowToon. I was using too many words in my original draft.
9. Finally, how does the process of reflection help you reconsider your identity as a writer?
  • The process of reflection helps me realize why I made certain changes in the entire process. If I didn't reflect, I would never understand exactly why I made various decisions.

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