1. What was specifically revised from one draft to another?
I spent several drafts rewriting my introduction and focusing on the components that make up forecasting in my introduction. Then, when I revised my body paragraphs I focused on creating deeper analysis and connecting my analysis to my thesis.
2. How did you reconsider your thesis or organization.
I tried to write out the different qualifiers in my thesis in more specific and concrete ways. At one point I did think about the order of my paragraphs and what would make most sense.
3. What led you to these changes?
People that peer reviewed my essay gave me suggestion of how to change the direction of my introduction to address the proper audience. Also, for the main body paragraphs the peer comments directed me to deepen my analysis. Also, talking to Mr. Bottai helped give me ideas to change and improve in my essay.
4. How do these changes affect my your credibility as an author?
These changes to do not affect my credibility. Revising and changing my essay are normal parts of essay writing and helps improve my writing.
5. How will these changes assist your audience in your purpose?
The introduction will explain the importance of understanding how to rhetorically deconstruct and argument, and the better the essay is organized, the more the audience will understand this purpose.
6. How did you reconsider sentence structure and style?
I tried to incorporate a more energetic tone to my word choice to sound more convincing and engage readers in the essay more. I tried to incorporate punctuation like semicolons and colons also well as varied sentence structures.
7. How will these changes assist your audience in understanding your purpose?
By writing a clear and well organized essay it will make it easier for the audience to understand the importance of rhetoric. The essay should be easy to read and not take a lot of effort by the reader to understand the purpose.
8. Did you have to reconsider the type of genre you were writing in?
No, I am very familiar with writing formal essays. I did have to work on writing more creatively and taking more risks. The conventions of the genre were a little different than I am used to writing so it gave me more flexibility in my writing style.
9. How does the process of reflection help you reconsider your identity as a writer?
I realized that I have a long revision process and it takes me a while to get a finished product that I am pleased with. I have learned to write to an audience and this shapes a lot of the writing choices I make.
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I read Rose and Clay's reflection posts for project 2. I realized that I approached the question about my credibility wrong- I now would say that all of my revisions increased my credibility because all of the changes I made helped convince my audience of my purpose. One similarity between Clay and Rose's revision processes that were different from mine is that their revisions focused more on structural changes than major context changes. I think this is because it took me several tries to understand the assignment and write an essay that met all of the requirements of this project.
I mostly changed my sentence structure, I definitely didn't think to change the tone of my essay like you did, I think that could have been beneficial to me. I also agree with the fact that the reflection process is typical and should not affect credibility.
ReplyDeleteI like that you really used the editing process to delve more deeply into analysis. so often students edit only thinking about fluency and not actual content. Good job in recognizing the weak points of your essay that needed more commentary.
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