1.How did you decide what information was most important for the draft? I thought about it for a while and brainstormed my ideas for the draft. Once I finished thinking about it, I put my most important thoughts on paper and thats when the draft came to be.
2. Why did you decide to “leave out” certain information? How did you make these rhetorical decisions? I left out some of the less relevant information and things that wouldn’t fit in well into the essay. I read the essay or paragraph over and removed some things that didn’t quite fit.
3. What were the steps for your research in this draft? I read the discourse community paper by Johns and researched some things about the subject.
4. What assumptions/biases did you bring to the research? How did you work to contextualize and check these assumptions/biases? The essay is about my fraternity, so there may be some assumptions and biases. I worked to be as honest and non biased as possible while writing this essay in order to avoid any sort of wrong answers.
5. How did you work with facts, observations, and so on, in order to form an argument? I have been in the fraternity for a long time, so I am pretty used to what goes on and how things work.
6. What information are you still searching for to help your research? There are still some people I have not been able to interview yet for the project.