In this blog post, I am going to compare another segment of my outline to a segment of my rough final project.
Outline Item
I also revised this project extremely heavily, as I started out this project trying to balance sexism and racism within the comic book industry, and I cut out the racism aspect which got rid of an entire other argument with evidence that I had laid out. This scares me still, however I believe that despite whatever grade I get the project benefited from my revisions.
Adaptation of Outline Item
Only towards the very end of the writing process did I notice that there was a glaring problem with my project. In fact the revision date only took place the week of August 24th, the week that the project was due ("Tim Wils - English"). The project was being produced with too broad of a concept, and I realized that I had made the mistake of not seriously going over my plans during the brainstorming phase. I had immediately gone with one of the first ideas that had come to mind, and while the idea was overall a good one for me it was too broad of an argument. I had to make the choice to entirely remove and portion of my project, in order for the project to become streamlined and focused on the ideas that I believed were most important to me as an individual. I had never before taken a project so late into it's process and edited the project so heavily, especially with the due date drawing closer. This ability to look at my work critically and see a flaw in the project, and understand that revision is necessary at such a large scale is a drastic improvement on my writing process. While there is fear in regards to this issue, as such a heavy revision so late might have taken away importance from my project, I believe that editing my own work is something that I learned how to do at a far greater level thanks to my work on Project 3.
I decided that while citations should not take a major place on my work in this paper, I believe that when possible it is good for the project to introduce citations at some point. While they are not all important, it does establish the genre conventions in a very strong way, and I believe that it also helps give the paper alone a better feel of credibility. I also tried to elaborate further and use the correct tone to try and establish credibility, while also keeping within the requirements of the assignment as well.
The production of this raw material was completely fine. I remember Project 3 extremely well as it was the most recent project, and the segment discussed here is something that I still currently am nervous about as well. The revision process during this project was extensive, and I am still nervous that I may have cut out too much of my project. These feelings that I discussed here have not changed since that point in time, and I write with the same intention as I did at the time it occurred.
I like the level of detail that you're going into for your project, and I think it's a good move to have elaboration on your section of describing having to be more specific in your work. I also think how you are citing your own work is pretty clever since it's hard to know what to cite from yourself. I think the only thing that I would find to be a little faulty is that I'm unsure the purpose of the paragraph from the beginning, since you don't really mention until the end that revision is the focus. However, since this is only a segment of the entire work the earlier paragraph may have plenty of segway ad this won't matter.
ReplyDeleteGood luck on the rest of your work!