In this blog post, I will go over my peer review for Michaela Harrington
For this final peer review, I peer reviewed Michaela Harrington with her project being seen here. For Michaela's project, I made a copy-editing suggestion, specifically how she could use different phrasing in order to enhance her project. I believe that I was able to help Michaela through my peer review of her project because I believe that her ideas are very strong, however there are certain sentences that she uses which change the tone of formality that might take away from her credibility. I believe that if she were to rephrase some of her sentences, the audience would be able to look at her as a more credible source.
I used Professor Bottai's suggestion in class regarding the difficulty of writing a standard college essay for this final reflection project. Ultimately, the way to make this project successful for this genre convention is to be able to have the right tone where formality is maintained throughout this reflection. I admired her ability to allow her ideas flow so naturally from one to the next, it has a very good flow and I hope to have that in my project and in works moving forward.
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Editorial Report 2
In this blog post, I am going to go over another segment from my rough draft and compare it to my final draft.
Selection from Rough Cut
My writing process throughout the semester has undergone true trial by fire due to the projects that took place during this semester. I have grown in almost all areas of my process, and even if I have not grown I have become more self-aware of myself as a writer. My character as a writer has changed as I have become more self-aware and I have become able to critically analyze my own work at a much higher level, rather than remaining satisfied with the basic and bare minimum for any work that I produce. I have begun to grow and become a much stronger and a more capable writer due to my own work ethic throughout the projects. I did every single assignment that was asked of me this semester and always made time for this class and the goals that I needed to accomplish in order to complete the projects in a timely manner. There are other aspects that I have struggled with due to the amount of work going on all at once in this semester, however this is something that I am going to take moving forward. There are certain amounts of process work that truly helped during this semester, and I am going to take a variety of different aspects and put them into work moving forward. Completing the project in sections for example is extremely helpful, and something that I began in this class that did not always maintain consistency, but is something that needs work for the future. Overall, I have learned the most about my process as a writer, and have grown to be open to change and growth and self-analyzation after the work from this semester.
My writing process throughout the semester has undergone true trial by fire due to the projects that took place during this semester. I have grown in almost all areas of my process, and even if I have not grown I have become more self-aware of myself as a writer. My character as a writer has changed because I am able to critically analyze my own work at a much higher level, rather than remaining satisfied with the basic and bare minimum for any work that I produce. I have begun to grow and become a much stronger and a more capable writer due to my own work ethic throughout the projects. I did every single assignment that was asked of me this semester and always made time for this class and the goals that I needed to accomplish in order to complete the projects in a timely manner.
There are other aspects that I have struggled with due to the amount of work going on all at once in this semester, specifically my ability to manage time. There are simply not enough hours in the day for everything that needs to be completed, and my ability to manage time has been effectively challenged because of this. However my newfound ability from this class to work through large projects in smaller segments is something that I am going to take moving forward. For example, during this class I was able to complete the work for the projects in different blog posts, which I could bring together into the one big project. I find this very helpful to my writing process. Taking larger projects that take weeks to complete and self-assigning due dates for parts of the project will make completion of projects far easier, especially with the busy life of college remaining a constant issue. Overall, I have learned the most about my process as a writer, and have grown to be open to change and growth and self-analyzation after the work from this semester.
Selection from Rough Cut
My writing process throughout the semester has undergone true trial by fire due to the projects that took place during this semester. I have grown in almost all areas of my process, and even if I have not grown I have become more self-aware of myself as a writer. My character as a writer has changed as I have become more self-aware and I have become able to critically analyze my own work at a much higher level, rather than remaining satisfied with the basic and bare minimum for any work that I produce. I have begun to grow and become a much stronger and a more capable writer due to my own work ethic throughout the projects. I did every single assignment that was asked of me this semester and always made time for this class and the goals that I needed to accomplish in order to complete the projects in a timely manner. There are other aspects that I have struggled with due to the amount of work going on all at once in this semester, however this is something that I am going to take moving forward. There are certain amounts of process work that truly helped during this semester, and I am going to take a variety of different aspects and put them into work moving forward. Completing the project in sections for example is extremely helpful, and something that I began in this class that did not always maintain consistency, but is something that needs work for the future. Overall, I have learned the most about my process as a writer, and have grown to be open to change and growth and self-analyzation after the work from this semester.
Re-edited Selection
My writing process throughout the semester has undergone true trial by fire due to the projects that took place during this semester. I have grown in almost all areas of my process, and even if I have not grown I have become more self-aware of myself as a writer. My character as a writer has changed because I am able to critically analyze my own work at a much higher level, rather than remaining satisfied with the basic and bare minimum for any work that I produce. I have begun to grow and become a much stronger and a more capable writer due to my own work ethic throughout the projects. I did every single assignment that was asked of me this semester and always made time for this class and the goals that I needed to accomplish in order to complete the projects in a timely manner.
There are other aspects that I have struggled with due to the amount of work going on all at once in this semester, specifically my ability to manage time. There are simply not enough hours in the day for everything that needs to be completed, and my ability to manage time has been effectively challenged because of this. However my newfound ability from this class to work through large projects in smaller segments is something that I am going to take moving forward. For example, during this class I was able to complete the work for the projects in different blog posts, which I could bring together into the one big project. I find this very helpful to my writing process. Taking larger projects that take weeks to complete and self-assigning due dates for parts of the project will make completion of projects far easier, especially with the busy life of college remaining a constant issue. Overall, I have learned the most about my process as a writer, and have grown to be open to change and growth and self-analyzation after the work from this semester.
The content of my re-edited selection of my conclusion is far more streamlined and separated out in order to ensure that thoughts flow from one idea to the next. In the previous conclusion, I am trying to address a lot of information in a single paragraph. I believe that introducing different ideas, specifically how much I have learned and grown from the process work completed truly shows a completion of what I was trying to do in my thesis statement. I believe that the characteristics of the assignment were much better addressed, and I believe the my writing process was always the main focus of the entire assignment.
The form of my re-edited selection also changed as well. I broke up the original conclusion into multiple paragraphs after going through peer review, and I believe that it allows my paper to flow more as my ideas are addressed solely through each paragraph and I am not trying to do too much within a single paragraph. I believe that it allows for the conclusion of my paper to take more time to fully elaborate on all of the ideas that need to be fully expressed within my paper, rather than shoehorning in too many ideas and not taking enough time to fully explain everything I want to do.
Editorial Report 1
In this blog post, I am going to compare a section from my rough draft to my final draft.
Selection from Rough Cut
Throughout this semester, my ability to plan, manage time, adapt to unfamiliar situations, learn new technology, and revise were put to the test over the course of the first three projects in this class.
Re-edited Selection
Throughout this semester, due to my work on the projects and the process work it entailed, I have grown as a writer in some areas and realized my faults and flaws in others as well.
This is how my thesis has evolved from my rough cut to my final cut. I believe that I refocused the content in the re-edited selection as opposed to the selection from the rough cut. I believe that the original thesis was too wordy of a thesis, and that the thesis statement therefore was trying to be overly specific and not allowing my paper to grow. In the re-edited selection I decided that the main focus should be the projects and the work that I learned from completing them, rather than how I changed in specific areas during random points throughout the semester in working on the projects. I believe that my new thesis allows the paper to grow and allows for much more flow rather than the original.
I believe that the form of the thesis generally remains the same, however I tried to ensure that the thesis was not too complicated to understand. Originally I had a lot of topics that I listed out that I would try to cover, while in the new thesis I am going to focus on the projects and what each project taught me about my own writing process. I believe this final version leads to a more a logical progression that my paper can now follow.
Selection from Rough Cut
Throughout this semester, my ability to plan, manage time, adapt to unfamiliar situations, learn new technology, and revise were put to the test over the course of the first three projects in this class.
Re-edited Selection
Throughout this semester, due to my work on the projects and the process work it entailed, I have grown as a writer in some areas and realized my faults and flaws in others as well.
This is how my thesis has evolved from my rough cut to my final cut. I believe that I refocused the content in the re-edited selection as opposed to the selection from the rough cut. I believe that the original thesis was too wordy of a thesis, and that the thesis statement therefore was trying to be overly specific and not allowing my paper to grow. In the re-edited selection I decided that the main focus should be the projects and the work that I learned from completing them, rather than how I changed in specific areas during random points throughout the semester in working on the projects. I believe that my new thesis allows the paper to grow and allows for much more flow rather than the original.
I believe that the form of the thesis generally remains the same, however I tried to ensure that the thesis was not too complicated to understand. Originally I had a lot of topics that I listed out that I would try to cover, while in the new thesis I am going to focus on the projects and what each project taught me about my own writing process. I believe this final version leads to a more a logical progression that my paper can now follow.
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Open Post to Peer Reviewers
In this blog post, I am going to leave an open post to peer reviewers for my rough draft.
The link to the rough cut of my project can be read here. At the point I am posting this, my rough draft is still being written and going through the revision process, and therefore the project is by no means perfect whatsoever. I am very much unsure about the content of my project, and would definitely appreciate during the peer review process for the peer reviewers to focus on the content of my project as much as possible.
Some major issues are that this project has not truly gone through any editing, especially with everything happening at the end of the year and the stress that everyone is going through in regards to finals. There has been a lot that has happened this week that has ensured this project has not gotten the attention it should. I am posting this early so if anyone is doing this, it can be taken care of completely and people can go through and tear the rough draft's content apart.
I believe that for the first time in this class, I am more worried about my content rather than my form. The form for this standard college essay is very good at this point, and if the peer reviewer happens to see something, if possible remind me however it is more likely that I am just focusing on the ideas at the moment because I believe myself to be rather secure in the form of the project.
The link to the rough cut of my project can be read here. At the point I am posting this, my rough draft is still being written and going through the revision process, and therefore the project is by no means perfect whatsoever. I am very much unsure about the content of my project, and would definitely appreciate during the peer review process for the peer reviewers to focus on the content of my project as much as possible.
Some major issues are that this project has not truly gone through any editing, especially with everything happening at the end of the year and the stress that everyone is going through in regards to finals. There has been a lot that has happened this week that has ensured this project has not gotten the attention it should. I am posting this early so if anyone is doing this, it can be taken care of completely and people can go through and tear the rough draft's content apart.
I believe that for the first time in this class, I am more worried about my content rather than my form. The form for this standard college essay is very good at this point, and if the peer reviewer happens to see something, if possible remind me however it is more likely that I am just focusing on the ideas at the moment because I believe myself to be rather secure in the form of the project.
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