DRAFTING
To start my drafting process, I made a page of notes and wrote down all the things that came to mind when thinking about the project topic. I wrote down the quotes I annotated and what I thought about those quotes. Once I had most of my ideas down, I tried writing a TRIAC that included some of my ideas. I also reworked some of the TRIACS I did for homework I thought fit well with my thesis. My draft was mostly my thoughts written down and wasn’t the most put-together because I just wanted to get everything down before I started making adjustments to wording and such.
HOMEWORK
The rough introduction paragraph that we had to prepare for homework helped me start on my intro and made me really decide what my thesis was going to be. Having to summarise the podcast and article forced me to reread them and think again about their messages and specific things they said which helped remind me of the topic and how I wanted to frame my essay around it. The 4 TRIACS from Brooks and Tiffany also aided me in my process because I reworked some of what I wrote in those, or used the ideas from them. It was helpful that I already had some paragraphs that I could incorporate into my essay that fit well with the thesis or could be reworked to fit the thesis.
PEER REVIEW
During peer review, my peer pointed out that a lot of my draft used first-person and second-person language such as “I” “you” “we” and “us”. I made edits to my final draft to make it more formal and not use any of that language. There weren’t many other suggested edits from my peer and the ones she did suggest I either fixed easily or felt didn’t really need changing. I do think it was helpful to have someone else look at my work and tell me what they thought because I don’t notice certain things while reading my own writing.
REVISION
In one of my paragraphs, my TRIAC ratios were way off and the whole graph was kind of all over the place, and Prof. Spain pointed this out. In my revision, I reworked the paragraph to fit the TRIAC style and even changed a few of the ideas I wrote in the graph. I very much agreed with Prof. Spain’s comment because I knew the graph wasn’t final-draft worthy.
ANNOTATIONS
The work from HW-1, HW-2, and HW-3 show my work and annotations from Brooks, Tiffany and They Say I Say.
In most of these HWs, I was responding to quotes or parts of the text that I thought were important or helped summarize what the text was about. In HW-3 for “That’s It. You’re Dead to Me”, I did show images of annotations that I made on the text. Those annotations were really helpful in deciding what quotes I wanted to use in my paper.
