Reflection on Project 3

In the following blog post I will be answering on the 9 questions provided in Writing Public Lives page 520 in order to reflect on the progress of my drafts and final product.

1. What was specifically revised from one draft to another?
             I specifically added images for the sake of obliging to genre conventions and then I added more of a focus on my personal interest and perspective on the issue itself; I made my personal opinion on the issue.

2. Point to global changes: how did you reconsider your thesis or organization?
             I thought about making my personal feelings much clearer in the introduction of my personal opinion and goal.

3. What led you to these changes? A reconsideration of audience? A shift in purpose?
            After my peer reviews and teacher conference, I realized that because of my lacked assertiveness and direct claim, I was losing the understanding of my readers, as well as their interest in the argument as a whole.

4. How do these changes affect your credibility as an author?
             These changes don't weaken me rediculously, but since I do turn to my own opinions a couple of times, it's possible that my level-headedness and professionalism could be questioned.

5 How will these changes better address the audience or venue?
              These changed make it much easier for the reader to fully understand what exactly it is that I'm arguing and what it is that I want them to feel.

6. Point to local changes: how did you reconsider sentence structure and style?
               I made sentences slightly more direct and less formal by changing word choice and sentence length.

7. How will these changes assist your audience in understanding your purpose?
              These brisker, more direct sentences help the readers to understand what it is that I'm criticizing and that they should feel frustrated about the issue as well.

8. Did you have to reconsider the conventions of the particular genre in which you are writing?
              I made sure to include images and links in the argument, though those were the only additions I made because I adhered rather well to the other conventions of the genre.

9. Finally, how does the process of reflection help you reconsider your identity as a writer?
              The process of reflection greatly helps me to remember specific weak points in my writing that may come up again. My identity as a writer becomes clearer with the mistakes that I've made, as well as how I repaired those mistakes, while staying true to the purpose of my writing.

Lancaster, Sean "Mirror, mirror leaning on the wall..."
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