SpalloneProcessJournal


 * **Date** || **Items Completed** || **Thoughts: What did you find particularly surprising or interesting? What did you discover about the research process? About Writing? Other thoughts?** ||
 * 2/22/12 || Research completed (2 FAQI sheets) || I realized that my topic was too broad and I decided to narrow my topic to one specific event: the Salem Witch Trials. I started finding more information that would be relevant to the topic and began to think about what genres would be useful with the information that I was finding. ||
 * 2/27/12 || Research completed (2 FAQI sheets) || I continued research on my topic and planning my project. ||
 * 3/2/12 || Research completed (7 FAQI sheets) || I finished up my FAQI sheets and started planning out what genres I would use each of my sources for. ||
 * 3/5/12 || Genre 1/Peer Review/Revised Genre 1 || I chose to write a newspaper article for my first genre. The peer review pointed out to me that my article sounded more like the making of a research paper, and I was told to change it a little to make it sound more like a story than a research paper, and also to add quotations/interviews with people to also add to the "newspaper article" effect. I also decided that I am most likely going to package my project as a newspaper because it seems like a logical way to go with it and because I would like to write something that seems like it could have existed back during the time of the event. ||
 * 3/19/12 || Genre 2/Peer Review/Revised Genre 2 || For this genre, I chose to write obituaries for some of the people who died during the Salem Witch Trials. It was an interesting process because I never really paid much attention to obituaries, and so trying to figure out how to write them was a little tricky at first. Other than a few things here or there though, they came out pretty good. ||
 * 3/26/12 || Genre 3/Peer Review/Revised Genre 3 || For my third genre, I chose to write a section a 30 seconds page similar to what can be found in the local Press Enterprise. Writing it was interesting for me because I got to write a bunch of small pieces from many different points of view, and I enjoyed writing it because it's kind of unique in that it is not something that is found in every single newspaper, but can still belong with one. ||
 * 4/2/12 || Genre 4/Peer Review/Revised Genre 4 || I chose to write an editorial section for my fourth genre. In the examples I found, some had listed only one side of the story, but another example I found listed perspectives from both a positive and a negative standpoint, and I thought this might be an interesting way to go with my genre. ||
 * 4/9/12 || Genre 5/Peer Review/Revised Genre 5 || For this genre, I wrote an interview with someone who was at the center of the chaos in the Salem Witch Trials. It was interesting to me because I got to really look into a whole other perspective on the event. ||
 * 4/14/12 || Completed Professional Genre || For my professional genre, I chose to write a journal article. For me, it was difficult at first trying to decide what the problem I would be proposing would be because it is not really a current event. Once I realized what problem I would choose, I picked some ways the problem could be best explained, and from there, the journal was actually not as difficult to write as I thought it would be when I began. It was also an interesting experience for me because it was a look into writing that I might actually have to do in the future. ||  ||
 * 4/16/12 || Portfolio Synthesis/Reflection || For this assignment, the hardest thing for me was trying to decide what genres or pieces of my work I could use to display progress in the course goals. For some goals, it was hard trying to decide on anything at all and for others I almost had too many options. This and the reflection were a good way for me to look back at all of the work that I have done this semester and really see how much I have developed as a writer. ||
 * 4/18/12 || Gallery Walk || This was an exciting part of the project for me because I was really interested in seeing what everyone else had done with their projects. It was also nice to get some last minute reviews of how my project had turned out. ||