In a 200+ word blog post, explore these questions:
- How did you decide what information was most important for the draft?
- Why did you decide to “leave out” certain information? How did you make these rhetorical decisions?
- What were the steps for your research in this draft?
- What assumptions/biases did you bring to the research? How did you work to contextualize and check these assumptions/biases?
- How did you work with facts, observations, and so on, in order to form an argument?
- What information are you still searching for to help your research?
- I made sure to follow the directions of the MP1 project that was given by the teacher which allowed me to know exactly what questions to answer in my draft. I also took advice from my peer reviews and recommendations from my teacher.
- When I write, I know what feels right and authentic in my writing. If there is a piece of information that I feel is not necessary or too wordy, then I leave it out. I make sure to only include what is necessary and interesting for the reader to know. I make these decisions by asking myself, “Will this add essential information to my paper?” and “Will this make my paper better?” If my teacher believes it will, then I usually agree and add it.
- I first began by researching my organization’s social media. I made sure to study the pages and read as much as I could about it. I also talked to my mother who used to be in this organization and asked her who the current head staff was (President, Vice President etc). Finally, I went to their main website and read about their motto, who they were, where they are located, and their background history. I then took all of this information and wrote my paper with the knowledge I had of it.
- I honestly did not have any major assumptions or biases other than knowing this organization more personally since there is a branch in my hometown. I assume that my bias was that I believed that they were doing necessary work for underprivileged children, and their website proves that this is indeed their purpose.
- I made sure to not include false information. I double checked everything that I wrote in this paper to make sure my information about this organization was true and correct. I did not add any extra stretched truths to make it sound better than it actually is and despite personally knowing people in this organization, I only formed my opinions about it after I fact checked everything. I also observed the social media pages which included pictures from events. This showed me that the women in this organization truly love what they do. This information allowed me to write my paper knowing that I was not misjudging this organization.
- I am still researching all the types of events that they hold. I know of a few that are staples in their organization, but I know that there are many more things that they do. I also am still searching into how many members are involved in my local community and the age minimum and limit because I am still unaware. I believe this information will help me out a lot more with this project.