Brooke Harrison

ENC4404 – Remediated Original Composition

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OBJECTIVE: “To make editorial notes on and revise a text that [I] have composed elsewhere… To remediate [my] revised original composition for a new genre: a print magazine.”

Part 1

Original composition

This is the original composition I submitted for the project, a fieldwork essay about music in education written for a previous course (Music in the World). My two partners read and critiqued my composition, giving me both substantive edits and copyedits to make.

Critique of Partner 1 (substantive edits)

Critique of Partner 2 (substantive edits)

These are the substantive edits I made for each of my partners’ original compositions. “Substantive edits” are meant to go beyond surface level by addressing global issues in the text, such as organization/structure, clarity, etc.

Reflection

Part 2

Revised original composition

Rhetorical rationale / reflection

After reading over my partners’ edits, I revised my original composition and then wrote a reflection identifying key changes in the text and describing my process of revision.

Part 3

Remediation in new genre – magazine layout

I took the topic/thesis of my original paper, music in education, and remediated the material for the new genre. I wrote an article about Broadway’s musical Hamilton and how this relates to academic teaching. My article was much shorter, more informal/colloquial, and was accompanied by visuals.

Rhetorical rationale / reflection

ENC4404 – Grammar Tutorial Video

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OBJECTIVE: To “develop a short video tutorial (4-5 minutes) addressing a common editorial problem or set of problems.”

Final project – Grammar Tutorial Video – Troublesome Verbs

My group put together this tutorial video to explain troublesome verbs. We worked together to explain the concepts and to shoot the video clips, and then I creating the final video in iMovie and uploaded it to YouTube.

Read my reflection.

ENC4404 – Class Blog

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Check out our class blog.

OBJECTIVE: To write blog posts “to make connections across readings and to organize [my] thoughts before class discussions.”

I’ve listed the prompts for each of our class blogs below. Read my responses to the prompts, collected in one document.

Read my reflection.

Blog #1 – Aug 31

In 200-300 words, please respond to the following prompt.

What is your history as a writer – what kind of good and bad experiences have you had (and what kind of in-between experiences). Reflect on outside influences that shaped your experiences – what may have influenced how much you enjoyed or didn’t enjoy the writing experience.

I would also like to know a little bit about who you are, what you are imagining for your future, and how does writing fit, or not fit into your plans. What would you most like to learn about writing?

Lastly, what do you know about editing? What do you believe is involved? What do you think copyeditors do?

Blog #2 – Sep 7

The Copyeditors Handbook suggests that in order to meet quick deadlines, copyeditors should perform “editorial triage,” or prioritize which tasks are most important and which ones can be ignored for the time being. After reading over the paragraph below, list the errors you would address first. Then explain why you would prioritize these errors. Then list the errors you would address if you had a longer deadline.

Nitrogen is an elemant essential to all life but nitrogen compounds are “extras largely produced thorugh energy consumption. The nitrogen cycle is affected by nitrogen dioxide and when high temperature oxidation and chemical conversions form nitrodgen dioxide physical effects are possible for example NO2 forms the depressing brown in smog, irritates our eyes, and blurs our envirnoment. In animal studies, NO2 has been also shone to be the most dangerous among the eight nigrogen oxides. Inhaled, NO2 reacts quickly with lung tissue and causes cell injury and cell death. Therefore, NO2 can cause major damage on lung tissues and cells. Biochemical experiments indicate that the region of the lung most responsible for respiration, the region bounded by the terminal respiratory bronchioles and the alviole, is most affected by inhaled NO2.

Blog #3 – Sep 14

Punctuation can be frustrating. Depending on how you were taught, you may follow steadfast grammar and syntactical rules for using punctuation, or you may have been taught to use punctuation aurally (by sound) or visually. In about 200 words, discuss how you were taught to use punctuation. Are there any punctuation rules that have stuck with you throughout the years (for example, rules for using commas, semicolons, periods, dashes, etc)? If so, list some of the rules that you remember.

Blog #4 – Sep 28

After researching possible publication sites, please list one or two academic journals that you could submit your composition to. Then, respond to the following questions:
  • What kinds of texts does the journal typically publish?
  • Why would your composition be a good fit for this publication?
  • What is the word count, citation style, and format?

Blog #5 – Oct 3

Chapter 15 points out several structural, conceptual, and stylistic problems that you may run into while providing feedback on your peer’s paper. In your opinion, which five are the most important issues to focus on while providing feedback? Please explain your answer.

Blog #6 – Oct 17

After reading about genre, please explain the term genre in your own words. Then, list two kinds of genres that you’ve composed in (for example, blog, academic essay, fiction writing, online or newspaper article, diary or memoir, etc.) Lastly, explain some of the different features of the two genres that make them distinct from each other in terms of purpose, audience, rhetorical appeals, style, and design.

Blog #7 – Oct 24

After receiving feedback from your peers, what would you say are the strengths of your article? What are the weaknesses? What is your plan for moving forward with your article draft? What will you add, remove, or change?

Blog #8 – Nov 2

Do you agree with Rik Hunter in “Hypersocial-Interactive Writing: An Audience of Readers-As-Writers” that writing in digital wiki spaces changes the roles that writer and audience traditionally occupied in print spaces? If so, please explain how you believe the roles have changed and give an example. If not, please give an example of how the roles have not changed.

Blog #9 – Nov 14

In their essay “Composing for Recomposition: Rhetorical Velocity and Delivery,” Ridolfo and DeVoss describe rhetorical velocity as “the strategic theorizing for how a text might be recomposed (and whyit might be recomposed) by third parties, and how this recomposing may be useful or not to the short- or long-term rhetorical objectives of the rhetorician.” Does your Wikipedia article have rhetorical velocity? How do you think your article might be recomposed? Please answer the following questions about your article to determine its rhetorical velocity.
1. Who is interested?
2. Why do they want to recompose my work?
3. What will they produce?
4. How might it be delivered?
5. How might I work to facilitate this?
6. What genres and mediums will the works potentially transcend?

7. What will the temporal lifespan be? (how long will the works be in circulation?)

Blog #10 – Dec 7

Based on your experiences writing and editing different kinds of texts in this class, did your process for writing and editing change when moving from print to digital and online spaces? Please explain. What would you say was your favorite project? What was your least favorite project? Please explain. If you could add another writing/editing project to this class, what would it be?

Social Media Mini Promotion

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OBJECTIVE – To promote the Why You Write web package of a classmate using at least two social media platforms. To create a social media strategy document.

Social Media Promotion Plan (pdf)

The purpose of this assignment was to learn how to create a social media strategy document that (1) outlined best practices for both platforms, (2) included screen shots of my promotion, (3) justified my promotion strategy according to the best practices I identified.

I partnered with classmate Jami Chiusano, who created a Tumblr page to explore the idea of writing while under the influence and the effect this may have on a writer’s process. I chose to promote her web package using Twitter and Facebook.

First, I researched best practices and looked to examples of successful promotion via these platforms. I also worked from the template of a social media plan my professor linked to in our assignment instructions. This was especially helpful.

I created a separate Twitter account to compose “tweets” for the project. I did not want to create a separate Facebook account, so I originally took screenshots of past Facebook statuses and provided the text for my current project below.

Then I learned about Simitator, a site which allows you to create fake Facebook statuses. I replaced my images with the fake Facebook statuses and I believe it looks much neater.