AMBER'S WRITING PROCESS

When we first began talking about this NOFO and its entire process I was extremely confused, and I was completely lost! I had no idea what was going on or what I needed to be doing. I tried diffrent approaches to the project, I tried different ways of listening but nothing seemed to work. I asked different people in the class how they were interprating this assignment but it seemed that no ones explanation was clear to me. I also tried paying close attention to our class discussions, although I was not participating I was listening very closely to everything said and what was going on trying to create my own understanding of our assignment. So for my NOFO I did as little as a could which was not acceptable nor passable.

Then one day after I spent my time looking at everyone else's pages, and giving my full attention in class, my light bulb started to flicker, it wasn't quite completely on yet but it was getting there, slowly but surely and I started my research for my NOFO. I picked a specific organization and began writing my problem statement for that specific organization.

I spent my time writing to a nonprofit organization that helped in mentoring children in our area and I soon came to find out that it wasn't one organization we were writing to but ultimately, types of local organizations in need of a grant. My light bulb switch was completely turned on at this point and I had a great understanding of what we were doing, I revised my problem statement so that it better fit what we needed to complete.

I then continued on to give feedback to my peers, such as Dsterns Problem Statement, so that he could revise and remix his work making it even better than it started out to be. Meanwhile, I too was receiving feedback from my peers to help me remix and better my own work, such as when April helped me remix my writing process, helping me learn and expand my writing techniques. Overall, remixing with this specific assignment helped me to gain a better understanding of it, from pin pointing just one non profit organization just generalizing to particular types of organizations. From this I now have a better understanding of the total assignment instead of just bits and pieces.

Now that I have gone through this process I have learned so much about the Wiki,  writting process, how to help my peers better their writing, taking their feedback to make my work better, and working as a team. The Wiki is a very valuable tool when it comes to writing because it allows us to write and write and write, using all of the techniques we have been learning from our text book, such as rhetorical knowledge, and critical thinking, reading, and writing. The Wiki is also a great example of writing technologies, using an on line network to communicate our writing and comment on others.  I have become a better peer editor over all from evaluating my peers work and remixing it for them, also doing the same with my work from the feedback they have given me. Altogether, on this huge Wiki network our class has been working together, as a team, to become better writers, readers, editors, and over all a better team.

Ambers WTEvaluate Portfolio

Copy of Amber's Writing process