This
blog post will discuss this past week’s process work. I will explain things
that went right and some challenges that I faced. I will then discuss how I’m
feeling about the project as a whole.
1. One success during this past week was the
editing process. Because of the peer reviews preformed on my project, I
understood what I should keep and what I should consider revising. This helped
my editing process immensely. Another success during this past week was
research for my QRG. My rough draft still needed a few more images and sources
of evidence. Because my topic is fairly controversial, it was easy to find the
discussions that targeted a specific claim of mine (such as the comment from
the College Confidential website).
2. One challenge during this week was the comparison
of my rough draft to the fine cut. That’s because most of the sections only
changed by titles and re-wording. For instance, I changed my subheadings to fit
the style of a QRG a little better. However, the process of analyzing the
differences and how this contributed to form and content really helped me
understand my paper a little bit more. Another challenge was the editing
process. Now, I said earlier that editing was actually a success. The editing
of the content went fairly smoothly. However, the general editing of the QRG
was quite difficult. For instance, the addition of an image often distorts the
entire paper. It was difficult to delete any white space in between text and
images.
3. I think next week will be interesting. The
reason I say that is because the final project is, if I understand it correctly,
an accumulation of all of the previous projects. Now, the only genre I have
left is a video essay. While I have edited video before, I’m not too proficient
at it. It may also be difficult to come up with ideas as to how to format the
video. I am somewhat excited to move on to the next project, but I think I liked
this one the most out of all of them. That is mostly because of the genre and
subject it was written in.
4. At this point, my QRG is all put
together. I only have a few tweaks and edits to make before the submission into
d2l. With that being said, I feel pretty great about this project. In fact, I probably
feel the best about this project over all of the others. As I was saying
before, I enjoyed writing this QRG. I think that the style of my writing really
fits that of a QRG the best (even though I’ve never written one before). I have
also always been interested in standardized testing and how they impact
students across the nation. I believe this level of interest has fueled the “pretty
great” feeling about this project.
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