Chanda Scott

Rhet1312
James Wilson
May 5, 2014
Reflective Memo Final

In project two my purpose was to communicate to you who in my opinion had the best make of
designer shoes. I showed in project two the different factors that would show this to be true. I told the
different price ranges of each designers shoe. I gave information about comfort and style also and I felt
with this criterion it would help to determine the best make of designer shoes which was the purpose of
the whole project.
This semester I also completed the task of responding to different audiences this semester. The
way that I achieved this was in project three with the transcription video for the kick starter project. I
reached to the audience of the impaired hearing by giving them a way to be able to read the video as its
being played and vice versa ; it also reached the visually impaired audience by being able to let them
hear the video if they werent quite able to see it as well as others.
I took the task of integrating my own ideas with the work of others in all the projects from the
feedback I was given. I took the ideas they gave me to use with my own to either take away completely
what I had in mind or to add to what I already had. For example in project two I was given the idea to
tell specifics about the designer and a particular shoe instead of all the shoes in general which I then
used to take away the confusion of if all shoes by the designer were better than just stating if one
particular shoe was or wasnt. I also then used the idea to add to my ideas of telling about each designer
because someone whos not into fashion may have no clue who Giuseppe Zanotti is.
The way I understood a writing assignment as a series of tasks, including finding, evaluating,
analyzing, and synthesizing appropriate primary and secondary sources was to first figure out the topic I
wanted. Then I went to find sources and analyzed and evaluated it to see if it had the right or best
information for me to use in the project then connected the right information to my topic to form my
project which is called synthesizing. For example in project two there were a lot of topics and sources
about Peta but only a certain criteria fit for my specific topics. Although I need to know about animal
cruelty, I also needed to know where and why they had this issue at hand. It did take multiple drafts to
do this assignment too. The first one was just to get all the ideas down so you could have a trail of which
direction you were looking to go in. the second drag was to add or take away some passages that may
not have contributed to the project or vice versa.
This semester Ive learned to critique my own work by taking points and reflections from others
on my work to enhance the way I write. I now elaborate more and pull more accurate sources in my
work. For example in project two, I took the feedback from others to elaborate more on the designers
background so that others could see for one reason why that particular designer was a choice. I also
learned to critique others work by elaborating more into what the topic was about. I looked at every
point and aspect of their work to see was the information they provided essential to their work. Project
one for example was a great project to critique others work on because it was more of a writing project
than the others.
Learning to balance the advantages of relying on others with the responsibility of doing their
part this semester was a challenge. For project two it was a challenge because the group had to make a
slide show and each person had to make their own slide and it was hard relying on everyone to turn
their slide in on time. I made sure I worked effectively to help myself and the group mates but I wasnt
easy. On project three it was worse. Getting everyones work in with the right information was a
difficulty. Everyone wanted an input which was understandable since it was a group project but relying
on certain work from the other mates wasnt easy. Everyone wanted to change everyones input. One
mate felt as though every piece of work they had was better than everyone elses. So from this it was a
learning process to balance and accept the responsibility of each own part.
In every project we had to cite the sources of information we pulled to complete our work.
Every source had to be cited correctly in MLA format .Also we had to save our work in a way that we
could decipher which project was which. We saves all drafts, revised, and final work. So in every project
we practiced appropriate means of documenting our work.
The use electronic environments for drafting, reviewing, revising, editing, and sharing texts was
almost fairly easy for me during this semester. We used many different types of places electronically to
do our work such as Wordpress, Scribed and kick starter for all projects. We shared different types of
texts on various parts of each project which all held various drafts with reviews and editing of different
kinds.
Understanding and exploiting the differences in the rhetorical strategies and in the affordances
available for both print and electronic composing processes and texts is by far the most complicated of
all things to do. Paper and electronic compositions are both on high demands which means they cost
more than what they used to. Some items are better printed that electronically published and vice
versa. Although almost everything is electronically composed these days some .In project three it was of
best choice for the project to be electronically composed as well as the text because we were trying to
persuade people to send us money to help start a project that others could benefit on. It was more
affordable to do the project that way than to have a 10 page paper on why people should help and send
money for our project..