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- I feel like the main challenge I faced writing this was figuring out how to get my point across quickly and effectively. It's not as easy as it sounds trying to make something as complicated as genetic engineering into something average people will understand and want to read about. I struggled with making complicated things into simple things, in a fast, efficient way.
- I think I did pretty well with keeping it short and not going into unnecessary detail. Yes, it was a challenge but I'm proud of the ending result in this sense. I worked a lot trying to make this happen-retyping the same idea over and over until the right wording finally came to me was a big part of how this happened for me.
- I think using emotional appeal a little helped me get my point across when explaining the side against genetically engineering human embryos.
- Social media didn't help me at all because there were no credible posts I could've used. People don't really tweet about an engineering controversy, and the engineers involved don't really (or aren't allowed to) share information on exactly what they're doing over Facebook.
- It was similar because of the drafting and editing process; it's pretty standard for a writing project.
- It was different because I never had to use this many sources or write a quick reference guide about anything before. It was something new and a lot of different aspects go into this genre.
- Research skills I developed will definitely be useful for other projects I might have because you pretty much need to research for anything you do; no one knows everything about a single topic.
Reflection
After reading the reflections of Austin and Grace, I felt better because they seemed to have a lot of the same struggles as I did. It's a new genre for all of us so getting to know how to write in this form was a challenge in itself. Then, adding all of the extra details and being able to effectively explain what your controversy was all about...it was a lot. I'm happy we all made it through and seemed to be successful with our final drafts.
I also struggled with being efficient and getting my point across. I also struggled with using social media sources. Instead, I used more scholarly sources and news articles in it's place.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it was tough to completely get a point across quickly. At the beginning of this assignment I think I struggled with that more too. I too think the emotional appeal is effective in helping get the point across and to really help show the audience that you relate. Unlike you, I have had to use this many sources before but never in this way so it was all very new to me.
ReplyDeleteI definitely relate to finding it hard to make such a complex topic into something simple, quick and easy for the average person to read and understand. I too avoided social media sources. Part of my controversy involved the CIA, so you already know they weren't tweeting about it, lol. Overall, I feel like we shared a lot of similar feelings towards this project!
ReplyDeleteIt was easy to relate to you because I also did not think that the media sources we all useful to me. Some helped but I did not think that they provided enough information on my topic to benefit it. Also, i struggled to make everything sound informative but compact. I did not want to do anything too long. Also research skills do help elsewhere!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see that others also had a hard time making things "quick". These reference guides are very hard to pair down, since there's so much information. The research aspects of this project, I agree, were very different but a very valuable tool for the future. Your use of emotional appeal was nice as well, I personally think thats one of the most important things to appeal to! Great job!
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