Looking back at the writing process used for project one, the word that comes to my mind is organized. From day one my writing process was done in an extremely organized fashion. From the day we were introduced to the project I began to plan out ideas for my Wikipedia page. This is one of the five steps to effective writing discussed in “Toward a Composing Model of Reading” by Tierney and Pearson. I planned by brainstorming topic ideas. Some of them didn’t work because they were not notable, or there already was an article on Wikipedia about the subject. Finally I planned out a notable topic that didn’t have an article on Wikipedia and I was ready to start drafting.
The second step I used during my writing process for this project was drafting. I began to draft my ideas on notebook paper. I looked at similar pages on Wikipedia and looked at the things they discussed and began to research and draft up my own page. After my first draft, we had a peer review session in class and I revised my first draft. This leads into my next process of writing, revision. After peer review, I fixed my article. During the peer review we also used the writing process known as aligning discussed by Tierney and Pearson. As I realigned I spent time rethinking my article and how I could improve it in various ways. This is different then revision because aligning is a step that can be done in one sitting, while looking at the text.
The final step is monitoring. I monitored and have continued to monitor my page every time I get on Wikipedia. I monitored the article as I was writing to expand and grow and develop more on the topic. Now I monitor the article every time I get on Wikipedia to make sure my article has not been deleted.
I can appreciate the amount of order you put into making the article. From what it sounds like, you really have your stuff together and it shows in your article. I check my article every time I think of Wikipedia and hope it's still there...so far so good.
ReplyDeleteIt's great how organized you were, I wish I could say I was as organized. It seems with writing I usually wait until the last minute then crank out the entire project. The article we read seems like something that was thrown at us in 6th grade and these guys are just throwing it in our faces again.
ReplyDeleteYou were clearly very thorough in planning out just what to write on. And not only what, but how you would go about it. Solid. I too had to almost "test drive" a few topics to try and pan out their notability and potential for writing a page about them. I can also relate to your monitoring of your article both during and after writing. You can't really help but read through and revise it as you're writing.
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